. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . erhaps some others, are employed in ournervous telegraphic systems in carrying on thewonderful processes of living, moving, feeling, andthinking ? Sammy had been several times interrupted by 232 THE BOY DOCTOR AND applause, but at this point it was uproarious andcontinuous. The restless and nervous face whichDr. Hubbs had brought to the hall with him wasnow lighted up with an expression of relief and delight which was sharedby old Mr. Johnson, , and by theladies and their escort onthe front seat
. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . erhaps some others, are employed in ournervous telegraphic systems in carrying on thewonderful processes of living, moving, feeling, andthinking ? Sammy had been several times interrupted by 232 THE BOY DOCTOR AND applause, but at this point it was uproarious andcontinuous. The restless and nervous face whichDr. Hubbs had brought to the hall with him wasnow lighted up with an expression of relief and delight which was sharedby old Mr. Johnson, , and by theladies and their escort onthe front seats. The father and motherand other relatives of theyoung lecturer made noeffort to conceal theirpride, and the old manTubbs desired so muchto impress the audiencewith the fact that he hadsome personal connectionwith the performance, thathe would every now and then step on tiptoe to saya word to either Dr. Hubbs or Mr. Johnson; mes-sages which could have had no great importance, in-asmuch as a smile or a nod of the head seemed inevery instance quite sufficient for a satisfactory OLD MR. TUBBS DELIVERINGA MESSAGE ON TIPTOE. THE TROUBLESOME MONKEY. 233 tc It is my belief, resumed the lecturer at theconclusion of the applause, and while setting downa goblet, from which he had taken a sip of water,that our ability to judge of the quality of thingsby the sense of touch is in a great measure due tothermo-electricity. In an article which I recentlyread in Prof. R. A. Gunns Medical Mirror, thewriter undertook to show the plausibility of refer-ring the production of all our nervous forces to asort of thermo-electrical battery made up of exter-nal membranes which are kept at a lower tempera-ture than those in the central portions of our bod-ies. He considered only one assumption neces-sary, and that was not an improbable one, it beingthat a thermo-electrical current is capable ofbeing generated between soft tissues of differentcomposition and structure. But unfortunatelythe writer
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