PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue IV, 27 January 1900, Page 153

PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS.

The average weight of an adult man is 1401bs 6oz. The average weight of a skeleton is about 141bs. The average weight of an Englishman is 150Ibs, of a Frenchman 1361b5. of a Belgian 14Olbs. The average height of an Englishman is sft Sin, of a Frenchman sft tin, of a Belgian sft 6}in. The average number of teeth is 32. The average weight of the brain of a man is 3Aibs, of a woman 21bs lloz. A man breathes about 20 times in a minute, or 1200 in an hour. A man breathes about is pints of air in a minute, 1067 in an hour, or upwards of seven hogsheads in a day. The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute, in manhood SO. at sixty years 60. The pulse of females is more frequent than males. Ninetyeight degrees is the average temperature of the human body. At each beat of the heart about 6oz of blood is driven into the aorta from the left ventricle, and the same amount from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery. One thousand ounces of blood pass through the kidneys in an hour. There are about seven million pores in an ordinary sized man. There are 1,750.000 inches of pores, that is nearly 28 miles of this drainage in a human body, each pore being about a quartet of an inch in length. Thirty-three ounces in 24 hours of insensible perspiration pass from the human body. The average duration of life in town is 38 years, in the country 55 years.