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There used to be recorded in medical books the case of a boy who, to represent Phœbus in a Roman mask, was gilded all over to produce the effect of the golden-rayed god, but who died in a few hours because, all the pores of the skin being closed by the gold-leaf, the natural circulation was arrested. We can count with the telescope millions of pores upon the sun’s surface, which are in some way connected with the interchange which has just been spoken of; and if this, his own natural circulation, were arrested or notably diminished, we should see his face grow cold, and know that our own health, with the life of all the human race, was waiting on his recovery.

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