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...changed more than once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose their lustre and brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth...
...increase. If I were asked to name that part of the human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none of them enter the brain, there could be no such thing as sensation, and parts of the body might be badly injured...
Professor Richards, of Yale, is suffering from some spinal trouble and is unable to attend to his duties...
...captain of the Bank Clerks' team of St. John, N. B. collided with another player of the opposing team, a picked fifteen in a foot ball game last week, and suffered an injury to the spinal cord, so that he died on the evening of the next...
...Sharp, Senior, respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...