Show AGE TOLD BY THE PULSE from birth to death the beats have a steady decrease how old are you ask your pulse the human pulse haa a wide range even in perfectly healthy persons the female pulse always beats fast er than the male and from birth to death the pulse beats steadily de crease it has been said by great authorities that the age and sex ot a person could be ascertained by the rate of the paloe alone babies at birth have a pulse beat ot times a minute in case of a girl and in the case of boys at the age of tour or five the pulse beats will have fall en respectively to and maid ens and youths pulses average 95 and 90 mature men and women av 80 and 75 elderly men and women have an average ol 01 60 and 50 an old woman s pulse rarely it ever sinks below 50 but among men a pulse beat below BO Is quite common there are however great variations consistent with health napoleons pulse is said to have beaten only 44 times a minute |