The second section of the bowels, or that part which follows the duodenum, or the first section of the small bowels, is called the jejunum. The third section, following the jejunum, is the illium. At the end of this section there is what is called the illeocoecal valve, or the entrance from the small bowel into the large one, which is called the ascending colon. This section runs upon the right side of the abdomen until it comes to the ribs and liver, and then turns squarely to the opposite side, running just beneath the stomach and spleen. This is called, in anatomy, the transverse colon. After reaching the left side it turns squarely down the left side. This section is called the descending colon. After it reaches the margin of the hips, or in medical terms, the crest of the illium, it becomes pouched like a Scottish bagpipe, which is called the sigmoid flexure. Following this is what is called the rectum, the last portion, and the outlet of the alimentary canal. At the outlet, which is called the anus, there are muscles called sphincter or circular muscles, which serve as a gate to the bowels, and when the rectum becomes loaded with the drossy portion of that which we eat, or food, there is a pressure produced against these muscles, and a nerve sensation produced, which apprizes the individual of the fact that nature calls him to stool. Now the mouth, stomach, throat, and entire tract of the bowels, are lined with what is called a mucous membrane, and this membrane is netted with millions of little veins and capillaries. The veins in the lower portion of the rectum are called hemorrhoidal veins. Now when a great many persons become constipated or costive, the circulation of the blood is checked or obstructed, and then these hemorrhoidal veins become full and engorged with blood, and pouch out the mucous membrane in lumps or rolls, and they become inflamed and painful. This condition of the rectum is what is called piles. The Indian method for the cure of piles is a certainty, if the party so afflicted conforms to the directions.

The human body has three sets of nerves in it, sensory, motor, and sympathetic. The sensory nerves are those nerves that feel all pain and carry it to the brain and nerve centers for recognition. The motor nerves are nerves by which we control and move our muscles. The sympathetic nerves are nerves that govern nutrition. Our brain is locked up in a bony box of eight bones. It has two sections, the cerebrum, which means the large brain, and the cerebellum, which means the small brain. These lay in folds called convolutions. It is the dwelling place of intellect and the throne of life. The human body is covered with an integument called skin. It is composed of four layers, and has seven millions pores, which, if they were stretched out in one line, would measure twenty-eight miles in length, and there is more deleterious matter and poison eliminated or thrown off from the body by the skin than any other eliminator known in the human organization. The skin has two sets soft glands namely, sudoriferous and sebaceous. The sudoriferous glands are what are called the sweat glands; the sebaceous are glands that excrete an oily substance, to keep the skin soft, silky, and pliable. Any person can readily ascertain this fact by squeezing the nose, when they will see a white, oily substance come from the pores. We have hair on our heads to protect the scalp and brain; we have eye-brows to act as eave troughs to lead the sweat from the eyes. We are told by Divine history that "man shall earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." The eye-brows do not sweat, but simply lead the sweat of the forehead from the eyes. We have eye-winkers, which are sentinels standing on guard to protect the eye from any foreign substance or material that may come in contact with the eyes and injure them. For instance, when a bee flies against the eye to sting you, he first strikes the winkers, and your eye-lids shut, and the delicate eyeball is sheltered from danger. We have hair on other parts of our body, for the purpose of keeping the sweat that comes from the sudoriferous glands from scalding or chafing the skin. We have two eyes to see; two ears to hear; two nostrils to breathe; a mouth to taste; a nose to smell; and a body and fingers to feel with; through which organs we have the five grand senses transmitted to the brain, through which we recognize all of God's blessings: seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, and tasting. We have two sets of muscles -- voluntary and involuntary. The voluntary muscles are those that are controlled by the will; the involuntary are those that are governed by the fixed chemical laws of animal creation, free from the will, and cannot possibly be controlled by it. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are a greater mystery to ourselves than all of our surroundings. No one can tell why a man's vital force begins to fail at the age of forty-five or fifty; but every organ that constitutes his body fades, in the healthy man, at the above-named age, in sweet harmony, and he has reached the summit of life, and taken the swift wings that carry man to the bosom of his Father and his God.

With these few anatomical remarks, my kind readers, I will say that my object has been to give you a profitable glimpse of the temporal body we own and dwell in that you may profit by it, and be partially enabled to know that man has the finest machinery in his body to care for that our Allwise God ever created in the animal kingdom of the earth.