CONTENTS OF A MAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 9

CONTENTS OF A MAN

An average man of 1501b'. contains the constituents found in 1,200 eggs. There is enough gas in him tj fill a gasometer of 3,649 cubic feet. The iron in him would make four tenpenny nails. His fat would make 75 candles and a good-sized cake of soap. His phosphate content would make 8,064 boxes of matches. There is enough hydogen m him in combination to fill a balloon and carry him above the clouds. The remaining constituents would yield six teaspoonfuls of salt, a bowl of sugai, and 10 gallons of water. The foregoing analysis is made by the Practical Diuggist, which adds that a man has 500 muscles, about 1,000,000,000 cells, 200 bones, 4 gallons of blood, several hundred feet of arteries and veins, more than 25ft. of i :fcestines, and millions of pores. His heart weighs from Boz. to 120z.; its capacity is from 4oz. to floz. in each ventricle, and its size i? sin. by 3Jin. by 2£in.; it pumps ,2211b. of $)lood every minute, 16 tons in' evory 24 hours, about 5,840 tons a year; m a fully-developed, healthy adult it beats about 72 times a minute.