Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-08 | Page 5 | Muscles That Shut out Cold

muscles that shut out cold the muscles of the skin need train ing to educate them to contract vigor bously on the slightest cold says a medical writer to shut the blood out of the skin so quickly that the pre bious body heat will not tie lost you notice that when the skin is cold there is a goose skin appearance this is due to the contraction of the little muscles of the skin the con traction of the muscles compressed the external blood and drives away the blood from the surface hardening and thickening the skin which thereby becomes a better non conductor thus the body tempera ture is maintained it is because of the constant ex kosure to cold that the indian s body is all face the skin of his whole body not only that of the face has learned to take care of itself