THE HUMAN BODY.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 55, 21 June 1884, Page 7

THE HUMAN BODY.

, — *. The average weight of an adult man is 1401b 6<>?. ' , . ji'lie average weight of a skdjtou is about 141b. Number of bones, 240. The average weight of the brain of a man is s£lb ; of <i woman 2tb lloz. The a\erage of an Knglishni.in is 1501b ; .if a Frenchman, 13611* ; of a Belgian, I4')lb. Tlie average height of an Engli^himn is stt dm ; of' a Frenchman, sft 4.n ; of a Heli»un, sl't 6=(h. The avtsi-cim.- number of t'oth is 32. A man breathes ,ibout 20 tim.'s in a minute, or 120 U timob in an h mv. A man bre:ith°,s about 18 pints of air in a minute, 1067 in an hour, or upwards of -.even hoi'.eheads iua day, A unn gives off 4-08 per cent carbonic <r,iH of the "air he respires ; —respires 10,6 Jo eubiu feet of carbonic acid gas in 24 l U) ,j, .—oonauni -s 1 ''6 »6 cubic feet ot oxygon in 24 hours — L 25 cubic inches ot common air. The aveiai>e of the pulse in infancy is 120 p.-r minute, in manhood 80; at sixty years 60. The pulse of females in more frequent than that of maies. At enH) heiit or the heart (about 72 per inmiiLo; about Gozs of blood is driven into the aorta from the left ventricle, and the same amount driven from the right ven-tricle-into the pulnnuary sirtery. The whole of th. blood in the body (about ■5760 frronmie-i in an average man) passe^ thioQifh the heart in 32 b\its. 1000 ounces of blood pass through the kidneys in an hour. 174,000,000 holes or cells are in tho lungn, whiuh would covlm- a surface 30 times qi eater than the human body. 2500 square inches may be estimatad as the surface of an ordinary bized man's body. had) pore is about a quarter of an inch in length. 3f)28 pores have been counted on 1 hqnare inch of the palm of the hand, There are about 7,000,000 pores in an ordinary sized man. There are 1,75.),000 inches of porea, th.it is 145,883ct, or 48,600 yards, nearly 28 miles of this drainage in a human bo .y. , ,'>3 ounces, in 24 hours, ot: insensible penpiratiun pass from the human body <J8 <legftieB U the avera o e tdinperafcure of the human body. The pressure <)l the atmosphere being 1411) to the square itrtih, the liuirum b idy sustains a weight of 2i),232ib , about 13 ton.-). Tiie average du ration of life in towns is ;;8 yv.ars, in tliri uouiury 55 years.