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Show Average Weight of Man. The average weight of man Is l.r,4 jiouii (Is. made up as follows- Muscles and their appurtenances, GS pounds; skeleton. 21 pounds. skin. 1014 pounds; f 1. 28 pottntN; brain. 3 pounds: '!'i . cic vlhcria. '.'Vj pouruls; RbdiUiilnai vlnrera, II pounds: blKd which wi-t. I t -alii fiom the body. 7 poiiiuN Tp head or smch a man wouli' be-' "i times -n minute, and he shoal'' bi"P' ' 1 r, times it minute. In twenty Ic.t ' li 1-k be wou'il vitiate l.Ti'iO cubic li-el of pure ulr o the '.x-tent '.x-tent ot I per cut. A man. theiefore, of the weight mentioned should have 8110 cubic feci of well-vent Hated space. He would throw ofi" b; the skin IS ounces of watel, 300 mains of solid matter and toil grains of carbonic acid every twentj-four hours; and 111 otp! loss durlim thai peiiod would be fl pounds of water and a little more Mian 2 I'oumlh if other matter. |