Hints and helps for home nursing and hygiene : a handbook for all who have to do with sickness arranged according to the syllabus of the second, or nursing, course of lectures / by E. MacDowel Cosgrave ; with the addition of a chapter on the application of the roller bandage, by R.J. Collie.

  • Cosgrave, E. MacDowel (Ephraim MacDowel)
Date:
[1895?.]
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    the sensation of heat to the brain and the motor nerves, in consequence setting the muscles in action to avoid the hot object. The rapidity of nervous action can be seen from the promptitude with which the hand is withdrawn. Motor nerves have all the one function, namely, to cause muscles to contract. Sensory nerves have dif- ferent functions, according to the part they go to. Those going to the skin convey the sensation of touch ; those to the tongue, touch and taste; those to the eye, sight; those to the nose, smell; those to the ear, sound. Most of the involuntary motions of the body, such as breathing, the circulation of the blood, and digestion, are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system., the “ brains,” or centres (ganglia) of which are found in front of the spinal column. They are connected with, and act in concert with, the nerves from the brain and spinal cord. The sympathetic nerves control the regulating machinery of the temperature of the body, deciding whether heat is to be given off or preserved. Such is a sketch of the functions of life, as manifested in the human body. A knowledge of the healthy pro- cesses of life is the first essential in combating with disease.