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Title: The physiology and hygiene of the house in which we live
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hatfield, Marcus P. (Marcus Patten), 1849-1909
Subjects: Physiology Hygiene
Publisher: New York : Chautauqua Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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t a distance they produce all the effect of anoil-painting. So it is with the human body when studied beneath amicroscope. All the beauties of color and form of thisearthly habitation are there found to be due to a marvel-ous mosaic of cells whose workmanship is more exquisitethan that of any Roman or Florentine workman. Even anordinary hand-glass will reveal the ragged edges and roughjoinings of these pictures in stone, but the finest micro-scope fails to show any imperfection in the finish of themosaic of cells found in the body. Take for instance thecross section of a single human hair and the sac in which itis held. In what kings palace can a more beautiful piece ofmosaic be found than this ? German patience, like divine wis-dom, has recently taken the time to number the hairs of ourheads, and iimls that a red head has 90,000 of these mosaics,a black 108,000, and two brown ones 109,000 and 140,000 10 Physiologt a.m> Hygiknb. respectively, and each oneperfectly shown in the cut.
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Cross section of human hair follicle, show-ing outer fibrous coat, basement membrane,outer root sheath, polyhedral cells, inner rootsheath, and hair itself. finished with a dainty care im-No wonder Paul declares that awomans hair is her glory.What would he have saidcould he have lookedthrough tlie modern micro-scope, which reveals thou-sands of wonders neverdreamed of without itsaid ? And yet we takeweary journeys to far-offRome and Naples to seePompeian mosaics with-out a tithe of the beautyof those we carry aboutwith us daily. Nor are the tissues, ortapestries of the body less wonderful than those of the Gobe-lin factory, which cannot produce such a sack as the humanintegument, or skin. Such another bag was never elsewherewoven, for its fabrics are so delicate that they need to bekept covered with fine powder lest they should be in-jured. Histologists call this powder dried epithelial scales,and with these the whole surface of the body is dustedin layers of various thickness, alwaysphysiologyhygien00hatf

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