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Show What Organ First Lapses Into Slumber? New York Ledger. It is said by scientists to be a fact that all our senses do not slumber simultaneously, but that they fall into a happy state of in! sensibility one after another. The eyelids take the lead and obscure sight; the sense of taste is the next to lose its susceptibility; then follow smelling, hearing and touch; the' last named being the lightest sleeper and most easily aroused. It is curious that although al-though the sense of smell is one of the first to slumber it is the last to awake. Hearing, after touch, soonest regains consciousness! Certain muscles and parts of the body begin to sleep before others. Commencing with the feet, the slumberous influence works its way gradually upward to the center of nervous ner-vous action. This will explain the necessity of having the feet comfortably warm before sound sleep is possible. |