NOT WORTH MUCH
(Press Assn.-
analysis of constituents of 10ST. "man's body CHEMICALS YALUED AT 5s
-By Telegraph — Copyright.)
LONDON, Tuesday. The chemical constituents of a man's body, whether he be a village idiot or an Einstein, could be purchas-ed-for 5s, said Dr. F. E. Lawson, lecturing at the Caxton Hall. • He gave
the following analysxs of a man wexghing 10 stone: — Enough water. to fill a 10-gallon barrel, enough fat for seven bars of soap, enough carbon for 9000 lead pencils, enough phosphorus to make 2200 match heads, enough magnesium for one dose of salts, enough iron to make a medium sized nail, enough lime to white-wash a hen coop and enough sulphur to rid one dog of fleas.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 5
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