Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — WHAT IS A MAN? [ARTICLE]

WHAT IS A MAN?

I)r. Hurty’s Analysis of the Constituents of the Human Body. A Chemical View: An average man of 150 pounds contains the constituents found in 1,200 eggs. There is enough gas in him to fill a gasometer of 3,649 cubic feet. He contains enough iron to make four ten penny nails. His fat would make seventy-five candles and a good sized cake of soap. His phosphorus content would make 8,064 boxes of matches. There is enough hydrogen in him in combination to fill a balloon and carry him above the clouds. The remaining constituents of a man would yield, if utilized, six teaspoonfuls of salt, a bowl of sugar and ten gallons of water. A Physiological and Anatomical View: A man has 500 muscles, one billion cells, 200 different bones, four gallons of blood, several hundred feet of arteries and veins, over 25 feet of intestines and millions of pores. '’His heart weighs from eight to twelve ounces, its capacity is from four to six inches in each ventricle, and its size is 5 by 3% by 2Vi inches. It is a hollow muscular organ and pumps twenty-two and one-half pounds of blood every minute. In twenty-four hours it pumps sixteen tons. It beats about seventytwo times a minute. In one year an average man’s heart pumps 11,680,000 pounds of blood. The heart is a willing slave, but sometimes it strikes, and it always wins.