Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-01
What Folks are Made OF.


is gei orally estimated at 2i5, OF which
there are reckOned i'm the skull. head and
face. 81 !; in the trunk. "a; in the arms
and hands. 60. and in the legs and fect,
60. The weight of the skeleton is about
One-tenth the weight of the whole body.
Bone, when used as lever, is % times
as strong as sandstone, 39 times as strong
as lead, nearly p times rs strong as box,
yew and oak timber.
The number of muscles in a man is $40.
being more than twice the number of the
bones. The bulk on the body, upon an
average, is equal to a cube of a little more
than sixteen inches on side, and the
amount of water equals cube little
more than fourteen inches Oh a side, or
nearly three-fOurths of the body.
| An adult drinks about fifteen hundred
pounds of water yearly, and throws off,
| through the various waste-gates, nineteen
hundred pounds. The difficulty of ac-
counting for the four hundred pounds
has led some to suppose that the water Is
formed in the system by the union of OK
ygen and hydrogen.
| The salts that have been enumerated
are found in almost every part of the
body. Common salt Chloride of sOdium)
| is found in every fluid and solid, except
enamel. The whole amount in the human
body is 277 grains. 1t serves many i'm
pOrtant uses.
Carbonic acid is found in the lungs, al
imentary canal, the blood and urine. The
amount of carbOnic acid. however, varies,
being from one to three pounds in twenty
four hours, and the causes of variation
are temperature, age, sex. state OF health
or disease. development of the body, mus
cular exertiOn or repOse. This gas (car-
bonic acid contains, in every 100 pounds,
IS pounds of carbon (charcOal), and u
pounds of oxygen (gas). Hence the
maximum weight of carbon which escapes
in this form from the lungs of full-srown
man is about fifteen ounces in twenty -four
hours.
The average amount of air which passes
i'm and out of the lungs at each inspiration
is about 20 cubic inches: the amount
passed through them i'm twenty-fOur hours
is about 622. 600 cubic inches, or. as Others
estimate it, from 5000 to 5000 gallcns
every day. This varies greatly. In the
first place, the lower the temperature the
greater the amount of animal heat
to be gathered, and. consequently,
the amount of air to be consumed
Also person labOring in the open all
breathes more deeply than one confined
to the house. From a series of 5000 OBJ
servatioas made by DIR. Hutchinson, the
following principle is deducted: Fol
every inch of stature from five to six feet
eight additional cubic inches of air are
carried out at forced expiration after a
full inspiration" That is, if person five
cubic inchesSa person five feet seven inch
es can expire 430 cubic inches.
The nails of the hand grow about two
fifths of line per week, while those O
the feet require four times that period TO
the same amount Of growth. Cases ar
on record where the nails have been shet
periodically. The time necessary for
nail to grow its whole length varies from
twelve to twenty weeks. The nails ar
thickest at their most convex portions
instead of their edges; they grow only 81
long as they are cut, and among the lite
rary class of the Chinese, who never cu
their nails, they are said to attain only
length of two inches.
1 In man, the average weight of the brai
is "A ounces, in females, I5. The averag
capacity of the crania of Germans an
:. Anglo -SaxOns is 80 cubic inches. Danit
Webster's Uranium contained ID cubi
], inches.
The amount of blood in healthy bod
$ is about eighteen pounds, or ten quart.
> | L
: inches in diameter, and beats 20 times pc
y minute, 200 times per hour, 100, 800 time
per day, 36, 722, 600 times per year, !, ,566
II 10000 times i'm three-scOre and ten; I;
each beat 2.lS2 ounces of blood are throw
r out of it; 175 ounces per minute, 6;
e pounds per hour, 81 tons per day.
n an ordinary life of man, the heart bea
4 at least 3,000.000,OO0 times and prOpe
through the aOrta l 800 600 tons of bloc,
S The amount of gastric juice secreted b
n the stomach of a well-fed grown persol
y has been estimated at from 90 to so ounce
in twenty-fOur hours. A healthy stOn
l ach contains no gastric juice except whel
5, food is taken, and by its contact with Il
st surface of the mucous membrane excit'
d the secreting organs to pour out the ga
d trio fluid in the requisite quantity. IT Il
y stomach is in a healthy condition. and Il
At brain healthy, the quantity of gastr
rs Juice generated or thrown out will be jrl
s. sufficient for healthy digestion. If Il
re condition of either organ be impaired, Ii
ne gastric juice secreted may be either de
if cient in quantity or vitiated in quality.
10 Let us study ourselves, that we m;
g understand ourselves better. The prop
ID study of mankind is MAN.
e. IL order to quiet the maidens' fears
10 their constancy the lovers in thp on ste