WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY.
According to the official Parisian markets publication, one of the most brilliant of French physicians, whose speculations in the region of human chemistry have led him to make exhaustive researches, has analysed the human anatomy into its convertible components. He finds: —-
A normal man of 150 Ibs contains in reducible nutritive principals the equivalent of 12,000 hen's eggs.
Tho gas of the human organism is sufficient to inflate a baloon of 10,000 cubic feet capacity.
A human body contains sufficient iron to make four nails of five centigranunos weight.
A man of this weight contains enough fat to make 75 candles and leave over enough grease to make a cake of Marseilles soap.
There is .sufficient phosphorus to make 8.045 boxes of parlour matches.
The hydrogen portion of tho human gas contents would fill the blilloon that would lift tho weight of tho contributor.
In addition to tho foregoing the human body contains also six toaspoonfuls of salt, a basin of sugar, and 82 quarts of water.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11508, 5 November 1912, Page 3
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172WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11508, 5 November 1912, Page 3
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