AN ARRAY OF FACTS
/ The average number of human teeth ISThe weight of the circulating blood is 291b. The average weight of an adult is 1501b 6oz. _,'■*■„! The brain of a man exceeds twice; that of any other animal. ' A man breathes about 20 times a minute—l2oo times' an hour. The average weight of the brain of a man is 3ilb; of a woman 21b lloz. Five hundred and forty pounds, or one hogshead and one and a quarter pints, of blood pass through the heart in one hour. The'average height of an Englishman is sft 9in. '~_,„ The heart sends nearly 101b of blood (through the veins and arteries each beat, and makes four beats while we breathe once. ■One hundred and seventy-five million cells are in the lungs.. They would cover a surface thirty times greater than the human body.
The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years, 60. The' pulse of females is more rapid than that of males.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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170AN ARRAY OF FACTS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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