The Living Temple

The sense of touch is dullest on the back. The normal weight of the liver is between three and fourponnds. The human skeleton, exclusive of -he teeth, consists of 208 bones. Hair is very strong. A single hair wilt bear a weig-ht of 1,150 grains. Men have been known to lose by - jerspiration 5,000 to 6,000 grains an xour. In the space of a quarter of an inch quare Withof found 147 black, 163 irown and 182 flaxen hairs. Under normal circumstances a man ,hrows off two pounds eve ry day in ensible and insensible perspiration. The heart ordinanly beats about eventy times a minute, and throws about two ounces of blood at each ontraction. The papillae of the fingers are about one-hundreth part of an inch ligh and one-two-hundred-and-fifieth of an inch in diameter. After passing throug-h the liver he blood loses a great part of ts fibrin, but what becomes of the atter substance is not positively cnown. The human lungs retain the air in .heir substance with such obstinacy hat it cannot be expelled by any comression short of absolutely disintegrating the tissue3. The head and face have eightyhree muscles; the neck has fortynine; the thorax seventy-eight; the bdomen three; the back seveny-eight:the upper extreme tiesninetyight; the lower 108.