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Skin and mucous membrane are of very similar construction, and a very close sympathy exists between them; thus a disease of the mucous membrane may spread to the skin, and vice versa. The outer layer of the epidermis is being continually cast off. The temperature of health, says Sir Erasmus Wilson, is a genial summer over the whole surface, and when that exists the system cannot be otherwise than well. This agreeable warmth of the skin must be maintained by food, by clothing, by exercise, and by washing. The material of which the clothing is made has much...
...superficial view which we are taking of the anatomy of the human body, the skin may be considered as composed of two layers, the outer of which is known by various names, as the scarf skin, epidermis, or cuticle. It serves as a covering to protect the true skin beneath it. There are in this epidemis no blood-vessels or sensory nerves. The thickness of this outer skin varies, in different parts of the body, from 1-240 to 1-12 of an inch. This increase in thickness is due, in a measure, to the pressure to which these parts...
...layer of cinders and ashes is being put on the new tennis courts back of the law school...
Holmes Field is covered with a thick layer of snow-ice, which affords very fair skating in places. Only a few college men took advantage of the opportunity for sport yesterday afternoon...
...have it on good authority that the layer of dust on the seats in some of the examination rooms would require a new and vigorous broom in order to be removed...