SOME FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY.

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1917, Page 62

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY.

Each ear has four bones. The stomach has four coats. Every hair has two glands at its base. The

sens© of touch is dullest on the back. . The globe of. the eye is moved' by six muscles.■ The cerebral matter is about seven-eighths water. The normal weight of the liver is between three and four ; pounds.’ / The human skeleton, exclusive of the teeth, con-V ; sists of 208 bones. Hair is very strong; a . single • hair will bear a weight of 1150 grains. ’■ The color of the ± skin depends on pigment cells in the interior epidermis. ’■'tigr The enamel of the teeth contains over 05 per cent. of calcareous matter. The wrist contains ’eight bones, the palm five; the fingers have fourteen. The roots of the hair penetrate the skin about one-twelfth of an inch. The weight of the average-sized man is about 1401 b; of the woman, 1251 b. On an average the lungs contain about 280 cubic inches, or nearly five quarts of air. A woman’s brain . / is larger in proportion to the weight of the body than - that of a man. The longest, largest, and strongest bone in the human system is the femur, or thigh-bone. The height of a fully-grown man should be three and ahalf times that at his birth. There are in the human body 527 distinct muscles, of which 260 are in pairs.