BRIEF FACTS ABOUT MAN AND HIS FORMATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 3 June 1882, Page 3

BRIEF FACTS ABOUT MAN AND HIS FORMATION.

Ihe average weight of an adult man is

140,ppund8 C outicea.;..... - The averago weight of a skeleton is about 14 pounds. ' ••■'■■ '"";" Tlioinuinbdr of bones, 240. " Theakeleton measures ono i'lTcXiesß 'thah'tbolieight.ofthe living man." ■ , The average weight of the brain of a man is pounds; of a .woman 2lba 11

Ounces, '■ ■'.'. .:..:.:.■.■ V.V i Tho brain of a.man exceeds twice that of any other animal. The average height of an : Englishman is 5 feet 9 inches; of ji Frenchman, 5 feet 4 inches; and of a Belgian, 5 feet fif inches, , Tho average weight of an Englishman is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 13G pounds ; and of a Belgian, 140; pounds, .; The average number of teeth is 31. ' A man. breathes about 20 times in ut minute, 0r1,200 times.in an hour. A man breathes about 18 pints of air in a minute, or upwards of in a day. ;' ' .. :i '.: (T ■ ; A man gives off 4.09 per cent carbonic gas of the air he respires; 'respires IQ.GGG cubic feet of cavbohio acid in 24 Hours': consumes 10.GG7 cubic feet of [oxygen in 24 hours, equal to 25 cubic inches of common air. -■ ! V/^ A man annually contribute to v'egetaion 124 pounds/of carbon. '; The average of .the pulse in! infancy 'is 120 per minute'n manhood jßoj 'at CO years GO, The pulse pi fernales is more frequent than that of males,.; j The weight of the: ciroulatrqg blood is about 18pounds.') , .--iki-.v j The heart beats 75 times lii a minute : sends nearly 10 pounds of bipod through llio veins and'arteries each beat; makes four beata )vhilewe breathe'once. Five hundred and', forty pounds, or 1 hogsheaU} pilots', of bjood pass through thenar! i,i one hour."""" ■. . ftvt'hu thoppandiqunds, or 24 hogs.headß,v4,;ga|lonß' or 10,782| \ pints pass through the heart in -24-hours.' , One i thousand, ounces of [blood pass through the kidneys in one hour. One hundred and seventy four million holps or cells are in the lungs wjn. .vould cover a surface 30 tirqea greater 14..1 the human body. ' :