BRIEF FACTS ABOUT M\N AND HIS WONDERFUL FORMATION

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 12 August 1881, Page 2

BRIEF FACTS ABOUT M\N AND HIS WONDERFUL FORMATION

» The average weight of an adult man is 150 pound 6 ounces. The average weight of a skeleton is 14 pounds. The number of bones, 240. The Sk. leton measures one inch less th >n the height of the living man. The average weight of the brain of a man is 3£ pounds; of a woman, 2 pounds 11 ounces. The brain or a man exceeds twice that of any other animal. The average height of an Englishman is 5 feet 6 inchts ;of a Frenchman, 5 fret 4 inches ; and of a Belgian, 5 feet 6f inches. The avenge weight of an TCnglishman is 150 pounds ; of a Frenchman, 136 ; and of a Belgian, 140 poundj. The average number of teeth is 31. A man breathes about 20 t'mes a minute or 1200 times in an bour. A mau breathes above 18 pots of air in a minute, or upwards of seven hogsheads in a day. A man gives off 408 per cent, carbonic gas of the air he aspires ; respires 10,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid in 24 hours ; consumes 10,667 cubic feet of oxygen in 24 hours, equal to 25 cubic inches of common air. A man annually contributes to vegetation 124 pounds of csrbou. The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute; in manhood ßo; at 60 years, 60. The pulse of females id more frequent than that of males. The weight of the circulating blood is about 18 pounJs. The heart beats 75 times in a minute, sends nearly 10 pounds of blood through the veius and arteries each beat ; and makes four beats while while we breathe once. Five hundred and forty pounds, or 1 hogshead li pints of blood puss through the heart in one hour. Twelve thousaud pounds, or 24 hogsheads 4 gallons, or 10,782^ pints pass through the heart ii isvenfy»four hours, Oue thousand ounces of blood pass through the kiuueys iv oae hour.