Volume 2

Health lectures for the people.

Date:
1883-1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health lectures for the people. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are minute sacs, usually several in connection with each hair, and they open close to where the hair comes to the surface. Their function is to secrete an oily fluid in order that the skin and hair may be kept soft and pliable. Fig. 4. Section perpendicularly tlirougii the healthy skin, (a) Epidermis or cuticle; (6) mucous layer, with pigment; (c) finger-like projections of true skin; (<i) true skin; (e) fatty masses; (fgh) sweet gland and tnhe or duct; {i k) hair, with its follicle and papilla; (0 sebaceous gland attached to hair follicle. The human body is a very wonderful chemical laboratory, in which even waste products are made to do useful work, but if these secretions which are also excretions are pent up in the body instead of being allowed freely to escape, the blood and the system become more or less loaded with some deleterious material, in consequence of which the health suffers. We are told that if an animal have the surface of the skin varnished it soon dies. At the coronation of Pope Leo X., a child in order that it might