Show how finger nails nall grow it his has been computed that the aver age growth of the finger nail Is 1 SJ of an inch per week or a little a bore than an inch and a half per ear the growth however depends to a 9 great real extent upon the rate of nutrition and during periods of sickness it I 1 Is re retard t ar d ed it goes on faster in summer than in winter and differs for different fin gers being most rapid in the middle finger and slowest in the thumb ac cording to the rate of growth stated the average time taken for each finger aboul nail to grow its lull full length Is abou four and a half months and at this rate a man of seventy would have re dewed his nails times taking the length of each nail at half an inch he would have grown seven feet nine inches of n il 11 on each finger and on all his fingers and thumbs an aggregate length of 77 feet six inches |