p. 12 | The Human Skin

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1904

The Human Skin

THE importance of keeping the pores open, and the skin in a clean and healthy condition can not be too highly estimated. The skin does a work similar to that of the lungs, and by perspiration carries off from the body much that would prove injurious if suffered to remain. It also contributes to an equable temperature of the body. Ordinarily, the quantity of sweat given out in a day by a man is about one pound and a half. Inattention to these points will give rise to many disorders of the system. The surface of the body is covered with scales like those of a fish; a single grain of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of these scales, and yet a single scale covers five hundred pores, through which the sweat oozes like water through a sieve.—Selected.