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Show Variations of the Pulse. Tho normal pulso has a wide rango, but is always faster In females than males, and steadily declines from birth to death. Eminent physicians havo thought It possible to toll a person's per-son's box and ago from tho pulso nlono. Tho average rato at birth Is 1G0 beats a mlnuto In girls mid 1C0 In boys; at tho ago of four or llvo, 110 and 100; In maidens nnd youths, 05 and 90; In mnturo women and men, SO and 75; and in elderly women and men, CO and CO. In ono recorded case tho pulso of a healthy man of S7 was only 30 n mlnuto. Tho pulso varies with staturo, position of body, oxer-clso oxer-clso nnd health, and In dlseaso It has been known to fnll to 14 a mlnuto. |