THE LIVING MACHINE.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 4

THE LIVING MACHINE.

WOMH !'> UE THE IJO!iY Julian S. Huxley, in the “New Leader.'’ dnt'.vs a wonderful picture ot that wonderful living mncinne. tin liunnin body. “We are so apt to take things for j granted that wo hardly ever take j time to re licet on anything so latnil- | iar as the working of our own bodies, he savs. “Yet a man, or a dog or a rnhbil. consi.dered me: ly as thing' which work, constitute pieces of tnncliinory as much more complicated at ' astounding than a motor-ear. a- t* a pair of scissors. “The. detailed mlaptions ol structure to function are remarkable cnougli—the way a joint works, the focussing of the eye. the construction of ihe hand. These have h"cu aha among the cummonplaees • i -i n uce id some time, and have often been described. Of recent years, however, attention has been mm- and more drawn to the working of the machm-' as n whole, to the way in wim ii itdillVivnl st rnclnres co-operaltimir functions interlock, r.o that there results harmony and no! 'ha . “!li,c is ii. po-iido tiri ham!. i<»u and eve shall co-opera I e in the cricket or iciniis player.' Ii cur tcmpcinl.u. itfic. up milch cVi r -I degrci - we come unconscious. Mow e it " wiirk properly v. hdl bal Is 0 v bli fluid of a certain nciditvkepi, c.mslaut 'a I low i-, R 1 ,u '- “ that the dige-ive Pin • ' hah ■ " I”' 1 " nut olllv V hell food is IP' ' d . -r I'M mouth .-hall he ••■qipihle. not lam n,w;, in one organ and 100 El'!" '*• lr ' r „ ••This regulation of lh" nciditv <• the blood is one of the he:,l ilhwn'alion of l lie delicacy o! lh- ■ ' voiced. In ordinary cir imslanc -. Mood acidilv is dcicrnuned bv i-"' i (• 1,.,.,:, id ill the blood. I * • • •'■V.l'l V 111! a lit 1 ; in-' in ii' > «• • , i j,.. »• >i, ;it wnw .i ii l U'o I ! 1111 !i.’ 'Hi -II • . In'iiij.’. }»i tjilm ‘ «I 1 ;• t ' l, ‘ ,MUM , l lie rale ai which n i- '-mg got m. ~i In i lie lung-. Eimm mic h,r ivgi the ha- ", the hrmn spring l tic nerves wliii h i on"'" 1 i! "' raic of breai bing. and this ‘hy-pira-r.,i v centre" is amazingly s -ns,live 1° changes m am. nut of acid. 'I b" led! OVO-- of carbonic arid will im'l'ca-" the rate of Eva thing, whi-h will wash j.l out bv the niOl'l' <:»t 1 ' (hit .I IU .-* 1 lung:-. . "Tims tli" rcspiriii oi'.v dice ;■ the gov I'lH'i' of a ' ! ' piece cf arparal us which n-d. - llil ' whole elf-regulating. _ B'» ;! accuracy is inconceivably much great - cr. An appreciable inerea-A of ral- <•( breathing is t-muMd clout ' "" f .me P-r! of acd f1,y.',,,in,,) in a hundred billion that Ihe acidilv of -It' hhad cf a healthy per 1 " a ret a' ns a 1 coiisiancy thin almost air ' : " MI this has a l.'s-.ni h r m . Mi ■'"• individual- and as -."inl I : oh jzetis. Our miml grow - 1! " Imdv. Inn it i> mocli m • !'•■ pba -: :e. much p!'i:det"l'iui'!"d Hio," "mic" mi. E • c-h "lahora• medium 'ii- are needed to 1; ’ *' • hotly to I lie pit', h "I li'-'i '. . Ii."! 1 ' "' ab ,ce ikii cl primitive iiu. : i»M- > v bn h

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