QUESTIONS FOR STUDY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1902

QUESTIONS FOR STUDY.

1. What is the extent of skin area? and how many sweat glands does the skin contain?

2. What are the chief functions of the skin?

3. Through what agencies are we capable of perceiving pain, and withdrawing from danger?

4. In what way can the skin be made to perform part of the work of the kidneys?

5. How much perspiration is eliminated daily? and what does it contain?

6. How does the skin regulate temperature?

7. How much heat is eliminated by the skin?

8. How can heat elimination be increased and decreased?

9. What is vital heat, and how is it produced?

10. What is the heat mechanism?

11. How is heat production controlled?

12. In what ways can the skin be influenced so as to produce changes in the production of vital heat?