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Show CAUSE OF A QUEER SENSATION. Danger of Katlng Ice Crentn Qnlckly in Hot Weather Its Physical KfTect. During the scorching weather of July and August you rush into an ice cream saloon with the avowed intention of cooling your body to at least a few degrees below the melting point. If you are in a great hurry, says the Globe-Democrat, you are apt to make the first few spoonsful of the cooling mixture mix-ture rather large. This almost immediately gives you a violent pain in the temples or somewhere in the region of the eyes. Why is this ? Did you ever stop to think? One who has studied the physiology of the case says that it is caused in the following manner: The frozen mixture, coming in contact with the nerves of the throat (the larynx, pharynx, etc.) temporarily tem-porarily paralyses them. The sensation instantly shoots to the center of those nevrcs, which is in the brain, but finds there a side connection in the shape of the great facial nerve, which starts from in front of the ear and extends its branches over the sides of his face. One branch of this facial nerve, extending across the temple, is a "nerve of sensation," while the other branches bran-ches arc simply "nerves of motion," utilized chiefly to govern the play of the mouth. This great facial nerve side-tracks the pain which proceeds from the chill, throwing it out along the nerve branch which traverses the temple, the pain being most agonizing at the points where the ner.ve branches. If the irritation be extraordinary the "reflex" action ac-tion which takes place may cause a violent pain in the eyeballs as well as in the temple, the eye pain being simply sympathetic. The person who rashly swallows great mouthfuls of frozen milk should remember that every time it comes in contact with the nerves of his throat the whole nervous system sys-tem is injured to a greater or less extent. . . |