“This [Kidney 7] is a metal and jing point. This point when struck will damage the kidneys through damaging the kidney jing. The recipient will feel an immediate rising of heat into the head which can cause knock out or extreme nausea from damaged kidneys. This is one of those points that can cause damage later in life. This point will also have an affect upon the lungs and drain energy from the body.”

“Trees that grow with a spiral twist, concealing a ropelike fiber under a straight bark, are not unknown, but are generally regarded as arboreal curiosities. A recent instance in which a pine tree of this curious formation was discovered through the agency of a lightning stroke, is reported by W.M. Kern, of New York City. The bolt, in its downward course, circled the trunk seven times, leaving a spiral channel in which a man’s arm could be laid, and disclosing the fact that the grain of the wood followed the same helical lines, though the bark and limbs appeared normal.”

“Can water be lost through the skin in any way other than by the mechanism of the sudoriferous glands? Is there a true insensible perspiration represented by a purely physical transport of water through the skin into the surrounding medium? Of course it has long been recognized that even where no visible drops of sweat collect on the cutaneous surfaces, water may be, and usually is being, vaporized from them. It is quite conceivable, however, that in such cases evaporation may keep pace with sweat production and thus give an impression of insensible perspiration without the intermediation of the cutaneous glands.

“The longstanding uncertainty respecting the origin of water imperceptibly eliminated from the skin was dispelled by a series of observations on human individuals in whom an unusual anomaly of this organ exists. Loewy and Wechselmann have had the exceptional opportunity of studying subjects in whom a defective development has resulted in complete absence of skin glands, so that both sweat and sebaceous secretion were lacking. Here, then, it became possible to investigate the occurrence of loss of water from the skin independently of sweat formation. It was found that such sweat-free persons may experience considerable output of water through the skin. The variations of such a process of elimination are considerable. The quantity may reach 600 grams of water per day for the entire body. This represents a true insensible perspiration — a diffusion of water vapor — following definite physical laws.”