A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy ... / By Alexander Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy ... / By Alexander Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which its elaflicity depends, intermixed with a great many nerves, and different kinds of veffels. The outer furface of the true (kin is covered with fmall inequalities, which exhibit through the fcarf (kin the appearance of furrows. Thefe inequalities are occafion- ed by various fubftances, as nerves, glands, and roots of hair. The true Ikin is highly fenfible. It forms one of the organs of the fenfes, that of Touch. This fenfe is more acute in the hands, and towards the points of the fingers, than in any other part; and is there defended by a tranfparent, horny-like fubftance, the nails. The true and fcarf Ikin are perforated by hairs: Thefe are fpread over all the outer furface of the body, except on the palms of tire hands, and the foies of the feet; though their length is confiderable only on par- ticular parts. The roots of the hairs are placed in the true Ikin, and are regularly organifgd parts, having minute veffels and nerves. The hair on fome parts, as on the head, &c. ferves as an ornament to the body, to adorn which nature has negle&ed nothing. In other parts it is more obvioufly ufeful, in defending delicate organs from external injury, as in the eye and nofe; and over the furface of the body, it probably prote&s the tender orifices of the fkin. Over the furface of the fkin innumerable fmall glands are found; fome of which prepare^ the fuet already mentioned, which defends and foftens the Ikin; and others are thought to contribute, along with the mi- nute extremities of the arteries, to throw off' the perfpi- rable matter. B 2 All