The Noise of the Finger

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1880

The Noise of the Finger

In the current number of the Medical Record Dr. Hammond says that when you poke the end of your finger in your ear, the roaring noise you hear is the sound of the circulation in your finger; which is a fact, as any one can demonstrate for himself by first putting his fingers in his ears and then stopping them with other substance. Try it and think what a wonder of a machine your body is, that even the points of your fingers are such busy workshops that they roar like a small Niagara. The roaring is probably more than the noise of the circulation of the blood. It is the voice of all the vital processes together—the tearing down and building up processes that are always going forward in every living body from conception to death.