Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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4,200 times an hour, throwing out at each pulsation about
6 ounces of blood, which amounts to no less than 1500
lbs. an hour, or
ABOUT 18 TONS A DAY.
So wonderful is the internal mechanism of the body,
that all the blood in it is caused to pass thru the heart
every three minutes, and so during a life of 70 years
duration it lifts no less than
919 MILLION POUNDS.
We breathe an average of 1200 breaths an
hour, inhaling
thereby 600 gallons of air.
The atmosphere presses
upon the body, in every part, at the enormous rate of
14lbs.
to the square inch; so that a person of medium
size is subject to a pressure of 28,000 pounds.
The average
area of the skin is 2,000 square inches; each square
inch of which contains no less than 3,500 sweat-tubes or
pores.
There is, however, a yet more wonderful system of
vessels which ramify, like the blood vessels, into every
part of the body. This is called
THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM,
which carries a iiuid called lymph, which is larger in
quantity than the blood in the entire blood-vascular system.
The lymph-vessels remained unknown to anatomists
long after the arteries and veins and the hair-like
capillaries connecting them, had been thoroly studied.
This fluid is of far greater importance and value than
the blood, altho strange to say, many people are not only
ignorant of its uses, but of its very existence. The
health of mind and body is largely dependent upon the
circulation of this water of life thru the body, hence
the importance of massage in the treatment of disease,
since it entirely revolutionizes the rate of the flow of the
lymph.
So also does
PHYSICAL EXERCISE,