Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1916 — One’s Finger Nails. [ARTICLE]

One’s Finger Nails.

No two finger nails on a person’s hands grow at the same rate. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than any other, while the thumbnail is the slowest growing nail. As a rule, too, the nails on the right hand grow faster than those on the left. The state of one’s health, too, affects the rate of growth. The nails on invalids’ hands grow considerably faster than on the hands of a healthy person. Taken on the average,, the rate of growth is an eighth of an inch a month, or from an inch to an inch and a half a year.