Ephraim Enterprise | 1905-12-14 | Page 12 | Energy Expended in Coughing.

i Expended Energy Expended In Coughing I A patient German Scientist of a n statistical sta r. r sta- sta statistical turn of mind calculates that F the amount of energy expended by a person coughs once every quarter quarter r ter of an hour for ten hours bourses is equivalent equivalent t lent tent to units of heat or the nourishment nourishment nourishment nour nour- yielded by three eggs or two t K L. L J glasses asses of milk Coughing Is thus n to tobe tob be an tn expensive luxury zury Ury The Tho 2 reason r reason ason for he waste wash In f rf a entailed 5 U it or one ont rea reason on at leas alt le-alt t lie lies In inkt kt 1 r the fact that while In normal respire respire- k r tion the air is expelled from the chest at the rate rat of four feet a second In R violent cou H s It may attain a i velocIty of feet