Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — Facts About the Human Body. [ARTICLE]

Facts About the Human Body.

The average number of teeth is Iwirty-two. I—- . The' I m ,n a;ioooda twteg~ that of any other animal. The weight of the circulating blood Is twenty-eight pounds. A man breathes about twenty times k minute and 1.200 in an hour. The average weight of an adult is one hundred and fifty pounds and six ounces. A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upward; of seven hogshr >ls in a day. Tne average weight of the brains of a man is three and one-haif pounds; of a woman two pounds and eleven ounces. --—~—■ Five hundred and forty pounds, or one hogshead and one and one-quar-ter pints, of blood pass through the heart in one hour. Tt.e heart sends nearly ten pounds of blood through the veins and arteries each he it, and makes four beats while we breathe once. One hundred and seventy-five million cells are in the lungs, which would cover a surface thivty times greater 'than the human body. The average height of an Englishman is five feet nine inches, of a Frenchman five leet four inches, of a Belgian live feet six and three-fourths of an inch.