 | Agriculture - 1860 - 604 pages
...interesting calculation: "I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the pslm of the hand,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...the rest of the organism, I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the...tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows iliiit in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found three thousand five hundred and twenty-eight in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the...of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to eight hundred and eighty-two inches, or seventy-three feet and a half. Surely such an amount of drainage... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1846 - 588 pages
...pores in a square inch on the palm of the hand; and each tube, of which the pore is an opening, being a quarter of an inch long, it follows, that, in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand,there \ exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73 feet. In other parts of the body the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...the rest of the organism, I counted the perapiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about n quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists... | |
 | Calvin Cutter - Anatomy - 1847 - 366 pages
...like an estimate of the value of the perspiratory system, in relation to the rest of the organism, we counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the...of these pores being the aperture of a little tube about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there... | |
 | Joseph Sparkes Hall - Boots - 1847 - 236 pages
...of the hand, and found 3,528 to the square inch, (on the heel where the ridges are coarser 2,268). Now each of these pores being the aperture of a little...inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73^ feet. Surely, such an amount of drainage... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...pores in a square inch on the palm of the hand ; and each tube, of which th pore is an opening, being a quarter of an inch long it follows, that in a square...palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal 882 inches, 73 feet. In other parts of the body, th pores are not so numerous. " Taking 3800 as a fai... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 pages
...the rest of the organism, I counted the perspiratory pores on the pnlm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the...inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin of the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73^ feet. Surely such... | |
 | Clifton Cleve - Inventions - 1848 - 98 pages
...palm of the hand, and found 3528 in a square inch ; each of which, being the aperture of a little tube about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that,...of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to seventy -three feet and a half." The entire surface of the body, he continues, in a man of ordinary... | |
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Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73^ feet. 
