The Average Man

The average weight of an adult man is 140 lbs. 6 oz. The average weight of a skeleton is about 14 lbs. Number of bones, 240. The skeleton measures one inch less th;m the height of the living man. The average weight of the brain of a man is 3J lbs.; of a woman, 2 lbs. 11 oz. The brain of a man exceeds twice that of any other animal. The average height of an Englishman is 5 ft. 9in.; of a Frenchman, 5 ft. 4 in.; of a Belgian, 5 ft. 6 in. The average weight of an Englishman is 150 lbs.; of a Frenchman, 136 lbs. ; and of a Belgian, 140 lbs. The average number of teeth is 32. A man breathes about 20 times in a minute, or 1,200 times in an hour. A man breathes about 18 piuts of air in a minute, or upwards of 7 hogsheads in a day. A man gives off 4,08 per cent. carbonic gas of the air he respires; respires 10.666 cubic f eet of carbonic acid gas in 24 hours; consumes 10.667 cubic f eet of oxygen in 24 hours, equal to 125 cubic inches of common air. A man annually contributes to vegetation 124 lbs. of carbon. The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute; in manhood 80; at 80 years, 60. The pulse of females is more frequent than that of males. The weight of the circulating blood is about 28 lbs. The heart beats 75 times in a minute; sends nearly 10 lbs. of blood through the veins and arteries eachbeat; makes four beats while we breathe once. 540 lbs. or 1 hogshead IJ pints of blood pass through the heart in one hour. 12,000 lbs. or 24hogsheads4 gallons, or 10,782 pints pass through the heart in 24 hours. 1,000 oz. of blood pass through the kidneys in one hour. 174,000,000 holes or cells are in the lungs, which would cover a surface 30 tii nes greater than the human body.