WHAT IS MAN?
SULPHUR, SOAP AND SALTS. Thr» all-absorbing question, " What is Man?" is one (lint, has hern asked by philosophers an 1 tliinkcrs for a thousand vcars past. Nobody lias been able tii supplv a final definition, but 'ho following chemical analysis of an average man's body, weighing lOsl. given recently by Pr. F. E. Lnwson. in a, lecture at Oaxton Hall, West minster, at least, gives food for thought:— Enough water to fill a ten gallon barrel. Enough fat for seven bars of soap. Carbon enough for 9COO lead pencils. Phosphorus enough to make 2200 match heads. Sufficient magnesium for one dose of salts. Enough iron to make one medium sized nail. Sufficient linn to whitewash a chicken coop. Sulphur enough to rid one dog of fleas. The whole at present prices couid be purchased for ss. comments an English paper, and it was much the same whether the body in question was that of a village idiol, or of an Einstein.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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