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Show Varfaticn of the Pulse. The norma! alse has a wido range, but is always faster in females than males, and steadily declines from birth to death. Eminent physicians have thought it possible to tell a ner- son's sex and ago from the pulse alone. The average rate at birth is 160 beats a minute in girls and 150 in boys; at the age of four or five, H0 and 100; in maidens and youths, 95 and 90; in mature women and men, 80 and 75; and in elderly women and men, 60 and 50. In one recorded c:ae the pulse of a healthy man of 87 was only 30 a minute. The pulse varies with stature, position of body, exercise exer-cise and health, and in disease it haj been known to fall to 11 a minute. |