| Show THE HUMAN BODY the animal which we call man la Is wonderfully made to bay aay nothing of his spirit his him mind his bis immortal part who can think of the intricate sta aid astonishing organism known as the human body without amazement at its perfection even to the minutest detail view it from an anatomical standpoint as depicted recently in a scientific journal the popular science near la in the body there are about bones the muscles are about in number the length of the alimentary canal is about 32 feet the amount ot or blood in an adult averages 80 pounds or fully one fifth of the entire weight the heart Is six inches in length and four inches in diameter and beats 70 times per minute 2200 times per hour per day times per year in threescore and ana ten ind and at each beat 21 2 ou ounces noes of blood are thrown out of it ounces per minute pounds per hour hoar 71 7 tone per day all the blood in the body passes through the heart in three minutes this little organ by its ita ceaseless industry pump each day what is equal to lifting tons tona one foot high or one ton feet high the lung will contain about one gallon of air at their usual degree of inflation we breathe on an average 1200 times pe hour inhale gallons of air 0 or r 24 i 1 ier er day the aggregate surface of the air cells cello of the lungs exceeds square inches inched an area very nearly equal to the a room twelve feet square the average weight of the brain of an adult male is a 8 pounds pound and sand 8 ounces of a female 2 pounds and 4 ounces the nerves are all connected with it directly or bythe by the spinal marrow these nerves together with their branches and minute ramifications probably exceed in 10 number dumber forming a body guard 1 outnumbering by far the greatest army ever marshaled manha ledl the atmospheric pressure being about 14 pounds to the square inch a person of medium size Js subjected to a pressure of pounds each square inch of skin contains sweating tubes or pores each of which may be likened to a little drain pipe one fourth of an inch long makl maki g an aggregate length of the entire surface of the bedy of feet or a tile ditch for draining the body almost 40 miles long surely he who to is eager to investigate the curious and wonderful works of omnipotent wisdom need not wander the wide world around to seek them let him examine himsel I 1 |
