OCR Text |
Show "BEAD SPOT3. 'ThNlfh WMtU N,.tlra tiny Us no Without lamina 1'nln. Most people havo doubled their eyef when at some conjuring performance they have ecen a man run needles and Tina through both cheeks, evincing no pain as he doe so In reality every person has hundreds of senielea specks of acnaelces akin all over his body through which he could run p'.ni or even cut them out, without frellnj pain If someone else wero to do so when he waa blindfolded he would not be etcn awaro of the fact. Physicians rail them dead spots, and the reaaon that one man ran sew his cheeks up while nnother could not Is simply bo-eiueo bo-eiueo the former happens to have many hundrrda of these spots In one place These dead spots are cauied by the minute nerves which convey every sensation to tho brain being either absent ab-sent In these particular places or dead and senseless Hut ahonld any one of our reider allow himself to bo blindfolded, blind-folded, and then get one of bis friends to prod him gently with a clean needle, say all on one arm, ont of every hundred hun-dred pricks he will feel only about sixty six-ty or seventy at the most In the other coses the needle will have touch dead spots. |