Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-09

Worders AZ home bv familiarity
cease TO excite astuuishmept. and
hence it happens that many know
but little about the house ve live
in"-the human body.
Weiook upon house from the out.
side, just as a whole or unit, never
thinking of lis many rooms, curious
passages, and the ingenious internal
arrangements-or, Of tie wonderful
structure Of man, the harmony and
adaptation of all his parts.
In the human skeleton. about the
time of maturity, there are one
hundred and sixty-five bones.
The muscles are about five hun
dred in number.
The length of the alimentary
canal is about ,hirtytwo feet
The amount of blood in an adult,
averages thirty pounds, or full one
fifth of the entire weight Of the body
The heart is six inches in length
and four inches in diameter, and
beats seventy times per minute;
four thousand two hundred times
per hour; one hundred thousand
eight hundred times per day; eighty
six millions, seven hundred and
seventy-two thousand times per
year, and two billion, five hundred
and sixty-tive million four hundred
and forty thousand times in "three
score years and ten." At each beat
two-and -a-half ounces of blood are
thrown out of it; one hundred and
seventy ounces per minute; six
hundred and fifty-six pounds per
hour, and seven and three-fourths
tons per day. All tie blood of the
body passes through the heart in
three minutes. So then, we find
that this little organ. by its ceaseless
industry. actually lifts the enormous
weight Of three hundred and seventy
million, seven hundred thousand,
two hundred tons in life time of
sixty years.
The lungs contain about one gal
Ion of air, at their usual degree OF
imitation. We breathe on an aver
age of one thousand two hundred
times per hour; inLale six hundred
gallons of air, or fourteen thousand
four hundred gallons per day. The
aggregate surface OF the air cells of
the lungs exceeds twenty thousand
square inches. an area very nearly
equal to the floor of room twelve
feet square.
The average weight of the brain
of an adult male is three pounds and
eight ounces; of female two pounds
and four ounces.
The nerves are all connected with
it directly, or by the spinal marrow.
These nerves, together with their
branches and minute ramifications,
probably exceed ten millions in
number, thus forming a "body-
guard outnumbering by far the
greatest army ever marshalled!
The skin is composed of three lay
ers and varies from one-fourth to
one-eight of an inch in thickness.
It's average area in adults is esti-
mated to be two thousand square
inches. The atmospheric pressure is
about fourteen pounds to tie square
inch, so that person of medium
size is subjected to pressure of twen-
ty-eight thousand pounds! Each
square inch of skin contains three
thousand five hundred sweating
tubes. or perspiring pores. each
one of which may be likened TO a
little d,ain.tile one-fourth of an inch
long, making an aggregate length
of the entire surface of the body of
one hundred and forty-fve thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight feet,
or tile ditch for ditching the body
almost twenty-eight miles long.
OF n truth, man is fearfully and
wonderfully made" Who is eager
to investigate the curious, to witness
the wonderful works of Omnipotent
wisdom. Let him not wander the
wide world round to seek them, but
examine himself! "The proper
study of mankind is man."
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