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always shows that a nerve is wounded. A 

 very little blood would also flow, which shows 

 that you have hit a blood vessel. 



COLORING OF THE SKIN. Now we are 

 corne to the place of the paint the color of 

 the human body. For so far as I have already 

 described the skin, the color is exactly alike in 

 all people, black, red or white. Here, spread 

 over the true skin the part which forms the 

 leather on a thin gauze-like membrane, and 

 under the outside membrane not yet described, 

 is a soft pulpy or jelly-like substance, con- 

 taining the color. In the African, this pulpy 

 substance is black ; in the native American or 

 Indian, it is red or copper color; in the Asiatic, 

 it is yellow, and in the European, white. In 

 mixed breeds, it is of course of the various 

 colors which those mixtures exhibit. 



I have sometimes been surprised to find how 

 ignorant many people are on this subject of 

 color. Some have never thought of it at all ; 

 others suppose that the whole mass of our 

 bodies is darker or lighter, according to the in- 

 dication of our faces ; others suppose the color 

 is in the blood ; and others still that it is in the 



