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are constantly being given off from the surface as more or less fine scurf, and as constantly being formed in the deeper parts which are contiguous to the dermis or true skin. The true skin is highly sensitive, being supplied with countless nerve-fibres and endings. It is also highly vascular, being supplied by those innumerable tiny blood-vessels called capillaries, though they are far finer than

FIG. 1.—Section through the skin, showing the cuticle, with the true skin or cutis lying beneath it, and the perspiratory glands, which corkscrew their way up to the surface of the cuticle, which is shown by the waved, shaded line in the diagram.

any hair, of which I spoke just now. It contains the perspiratory or sweat-glands, the sebaceous or oil-glands, and the roots of the hair, which are fed by the latter.

There are many ways of proving that the skin is