THE HUMAN BODY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10560, 10 April 1920, Page 9

THE HUMAN BODY

SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF ITS CONSTITUENTS. “What is the human body complied of?" is the question which has been engaging the attention oi *» American paper. It finds thaA a man weighing -1501 b will contain approximately 3500 cubic feet of gas—oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen—in his constitution, which would be worth about 11s 2d for illuminating_ purposes, such -.-a-man- also contains all the necessary--fats to make a. 151 h candle, and thus together with his 3500 cubic feet of gases, he possesses considerable illuminating possibilities His system contains 221 b lOoz of carbon, or enough to make 780 doz, or 9360 lead pencils. There oro about 50 grains of iron in the blood, and the rest of the' body' would - supply enough of this metal to make one spiko' large enough to hold his weight. A healthy man contains 640 z of phosphorus. This deadly poison would make . 800,000 matches, or enough poison to kill 500 persons. This, with 2oz of lime, makes the stiff bones and brains. No master how eour o man lobks, he contains about sixty lumps of sugar of the ordinary cubical dimensions,- and to make the seasoning complete, there are SO spoonfuls of salt. Break the shells of 1000 eggs Into a huge pan ot basin, and you have the ingredients to make a man from his toenails to the most delicate tissues of his brains.