MAN’S BODY
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 24. (Received November 25, at 9 a.m.) “ The chemical constituents of a man’s body, whether he be a village idiot or an Einstein, could be purchased for five shillings,” said Dr F. E. Lawson, when lecturing at tho Caxton Hall. Ho gave the following analysis of a ten-stono man:—Enough water to fill a ten-gallon barrel, enough fat for seven bars of soap, enough carbon for 9,000 lead pencils, enough phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, enough magnesium for one doso of salts, enough iron to make a _ medium-sized nail, enough lime to whitewash a hen coop, and enough sulphur to rid one flog of its fleas.
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Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 9
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117MAN’S BODY Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 9
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