The Noise of the Finger.
In a late number of the Medioal Record Dr Hammond says that when you poke the end of your finger in your ear, the roaring noise you hear is the sound of the circulation in your finger, which is a fact, as any one can demonstrate for himself by firafc putting his fingers in his eajp and then stopping them up with other substance. Try it, and think what a wonder of a maohine your body is, that even the points of your fingers are such busy workshops that they roar like a small Niagara. The roaring is probably more than the noise of the circulation of the blood. It Is the voice of all the vital pro* cesses together — the tearing down and building up processes that are always going forward in every living body, from conception to death.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 28
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