HOW FAR THE BLOOD TRAVELS
The milage of the blood circulatioi reveals some astonishing facts. 11 has just been circulated, for instance that, assuming the heart to beal sixty-nine times a minute at ordin ary pressure, the blood goes at th rate of two hundred and seven yard; a minute, or nine miles an hour two hundred and; twenty miles a day and eight thousand miles a year. I a man eighty-four years old coul< have had one single blood corpuscli Boating. in his blood all his life, i 1 would have travelled in that tim' nearly seven million miles.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 507, 9 October 1912, Page 7
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100HOW FAR THE BLOOD TRAVELS King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 507, 9 October 1912, Page 7
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