How Man is Constructed.
The average weight of an adult man is 140 pounds 6 ounces.
The average weight of a skeleton is about fourteen pounds.
Number of bones, 240.
The skeleton measures one inch less than the living man.
The average weight of the brain of a man is three and a half pounds; of a woman, two pounds eleven ounces.
The brain of man exceeds twice that of any other animal.
The average height of an Englishman is five feet nine inches; and of a Belgian, five feet six and three-quarter inches.
The average weight of an Englishman is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 136 pounds; a Belgian, 140 pounds.
The average number of teeth is thirty-two.
A man breathes about twenty times a minute, or 1,200 times an hour.
A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upwards of seven hogsheads in a day.
A man gives off 4.08 per cent carbonic gas of the air he respires; respires 10,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in twenty-four hours, equal to 125 cubic inches common air.
A man annually contributes to vegetation 124 pounds of carbon.
The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years, 60. The pulse of females is more frequent than that of males.