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Page 22
ELEMENTS OF THE HUMAN BODY.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
| Lbs. | Oz. | Grs.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
1. Oxygen, a gas, and supporter of combustion, | | |
weighs | 103 | 2 | 335
| | |
2. Carbon, a solid; found most nearly pure in charcoal. | | |
Carbon in the body combines with other | | |
elements to produce carbonic-acid gas, and by | | |
its burning sets heat free. Its weight is | 18 | 11 | 150
| | |
3. Hydrogen, a gas, is a part of all bone, blood, and | | |
muscle, and weighs | 4 | 14 | 0
| | |
4. Nitrogen, a gas, is also part of all muscle, blood, | | |
and bone; weighing | 4 | 14 | 0
| | |
5. Phosphorus, a solid, found in brain and bones, | | |
weighs | 1 | 12 | 25
| | |
6. Sulphur, a solid, found in all parts of the body, | | |
weighs | 0 | 8 | 0
| | |
7. Chlorine, a gas, found in all parts of the body, | | |
weighs | 0 | 4 | 150
| | |
8. Fluorine, supposed to be a gas, is found with calcium | | |
in teeth and bones, and weighs | 0 | 3 | 300
| | |
9. Silicon, a solid, found united with oxygen in the | | |
hair, skin, bile, bones, blood, and saliva, weighs | 0 | 0 | 14
| | |
10. Magnesium, a metal found in union with phosphoric | | |
acid in the bones | 0 | 2 | 250
| | |
11. Potassium, a metal, the basis of potash, is found | | |
as phosphate and chloride; weighs | 0 | 3 | 340
| | |
12. Sodium, a metal, basis of soda; weighs | 0 | 3 | 217
| | |
13. Calcium, a metal, basis of lime, found chiefly in | | |
bones and teeth; weighs | 3 | 13 | 190
| | |
14. Iron, a metal essential in the coloring of the | | |
blood, and found everywhere in the body; | | |
weighs | 0 | 0 | 65
| | |
15. Manganese. } Faint traces of both these metals | | |
} | | |
16. Copper metals.} are found in brain and blood, | | |
but in too minute portions to be given by | | |
weight. | | |
|------|-----|-----
Total | 154 | 0 | 0
The second table gives the combinations of these elements; and, though a
knowledge of such combinations is not as absolutely essential as the
first, we still can not well dispense with it. The same weight--one
hundred and fifty-four pounds--is taken as the standard.
COMPOSITION OF THE BODY.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
| Lbs. | Oz. | Grs.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
1. Water, which is found in every part of the body, | | |
and amounts to | 109 | 0 | 0
| | |
2. Fibrine, and like substances, found in the blood, | | |
and forming the chief solid materials of the | | |
flesh | 15 | 10 | 0
| | |
3. Phosphate of lime, chiefly in bones and teeth, but | | |
in all liquids and tissues | 8 | 12 | 0
4. Fat, a mixture of three chemical compounds, | | |
and distributed all through the body | 4 | 8 | 0
| | |
5. Osseine, the organic framework of bones; boiled, | | |
gives gelatine. Weight | 4 | 7 | 350
| | |
6. Keratine, a nitrogenous substance, forming the | | |
greater part of hair, nails, and skin. Weighs | 4 | 2 | 0
| | |
7. Cartilagine resembles the osseine of bone, and is a | | |
nitrogenous substance, the chief constituent of | | |
cartilage, weighing | 1 | 8 | 0
| | |
8. H�moglobine gives the red color to blood, and is | | |
a nitrogenous substance containing iron, and | | |
weighing | 1 | 8 | 0
| | |
9. Albumen is a soluble nitrogenous substance, | | |
found in the blood, chyle, lymph, and muscle, | | |
and weighs | 1 | 1 | 0
| | |
10. Carbonate of lime is found in the bones chiefly, | | |
and weighs | 1 | 1 | 0
| | |
11. Hephalin is found in nerves and brain, with | | |
cerebrine and other compounds | 0 | 13 | 0
| | |
12. Fluoride of calcium is found in teeth and bones, | | |
and weighs | 0 | 7 | 175
| | |
13. Phosphate of magnesia is also in teeth and bones, | | |
and weighs | 0 | 7 | 0
| | |
14. Chloride of sodium, or common salt, is found in | | |
all parts of the body, and weighs | 0 | 7 | 0
| | |
15. Cholesterine, glycogen, and inosite are compounds | | |
containing hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, | | |
found in muscle, liver, and brain, and | | |
weighing | 0 | 3 | 0
| | |
16. Sulphate phosphate, and salts of sodium, found | | |
in all tissues and liquids | 0 | 2 | 107
| | |
17. Sulphate, phosphate, and chloride of potassium, | | |
are also in all tissues and liquids | 0 | 1 | 300
| | |
18. Silica, found in hair, skin, and bone | 0 | 0 | 30
| | |
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| 154 | 0 | 0
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