STRUCTURE OF SKIN: NERVES, BLOOD VESSELS AND LYMPHATICS
The nerves of the skinThe skin is provided with a greater variety of nerves than any other organ in the body, and this is because it has many important functions to fulfill. There are nerves that recognize pressure and locality, those that are said to be concerned in the temperature sense, those that recognize pain and those that control the local circulation. The nerves of the skin ramify through all its parts, some of them terminating in the inner and some in the outer layer, depending, of course, on the particular function they have to fulfill.
The blood vessels and lymphatics of the skinThere is a general network in the skin of blood vessels and lymphatics, and these are required for the supply of nutriment to the hair follicles and the sweat and the sebaceous glands, and for the dispersal of the waste products of cell activity. This circulation through the skin is very important, and there is a greater proportion of the total blood content in the skin than many people imagine. This fact is known to those who practice water treatments, because the various applications are used on the surface of the body in order to influence the rich supply of blood that lies just beneath.
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