A MARVEL OF THE HEART.
The heart of one man in a lifetime pumps as much through the body &s thfe blood weight of the ten ihillioft ktneh. killed during the; war, a6cordi||g to Dr J. P£o£ es -- sor on,mood circulation, apd; the first, man to perfect a system for'measuring thfe blood conteHt of |the Hufiadh body. i“iThe heart of a man weighing 1331 b living 60 years,” he said, “pumps during the course of his life quarts of blood. The .world war cost '10,000,000 lives. Estimating the average weight of a man’s body at 133ibs and the weight of the blood content at 5 per cent, of the total, some 21,400,000 quarts pf blood were shed during the war.” Professor Plesch used this illustration to show how much morf powerful is that marvel of nature than the destruction which mankind with the most ingenious instruments of warfare was able to inflict upon itself in five years of desperate effort.
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Franklin Times, 3 January 1923, Page 4
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160A MARVEL OF THE HEART. Franklin Times, 3 January 1923, Page 4
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