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Show Energy Expended In Couching. A patient German scientist of a statistical sta-tistical turn of mind calculates that the amount of energy expended by n person who coiirIis onco every quor-tcr quor-tcr of nn hour for ten hours Is equivalent equiva-lent lo 2M1 units of heat or tho nour-iFl.ment nour-iFl.ment jleldn by three eggs or two glasses of milk. Coughing Is (litis fceen lo he an expensive luxury. The reason for the waste In force entailed by II, or ono reason at least, yes In the fact that while In normal respiration respira-tion the air Is expelled from tho chest at the rnte of four feet a second, In violent coughing It may 'attain a orll of 300 feet. |