 | Medicine - 1848 - 790 pages
...counted the perspiraiory pores on the palm of the hand and found 3528 in a square inch, now each oi these pores being the aperture of a little tube Of...long, it follows that in a square inch of skin, on tho The importance of the perspiration in the economy of the human system, has at all times attracted... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 466 pages
...use the words imperfect notion, advisedly, for the reality surpasses imagination and almost belief. To arrive at something like an estimate of the value...skin, on the palm of the hand, there exists a length oftube«qual to 282 inches, or 73£ feet. On the pulps of the fingers, where the ridges of the sensitive... | |
 | Calvin Cutter - Anatomy - 1852 - 502 pages
...preventing the ingiess of foreign injurious substances to the interior of the tube and gland. 634. " To arrive at something like an estimate of the value...of these pores being the aperture of a little tube about a quarter of an inch What i« said of the retention of the unctioua matter in the oil-tubes ?... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores heing the aperture of a little tuhe of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows, that...on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tuhe equal to H82 inches, or /.'! J feet. On the pulps of the fingers, where the ridges of the sensitive... | |
 | R. T. Claridge - Hydrotherapy - 1849 - 228 pages
...imagination and almost belii-f. " The perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, are found to be 3,528 in a square inch ; now each of these pores being the...about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in n square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exits a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...calculation, ho says : — On the palm of the hand the number of perspiratory pores is 3,528 in the square inch. Now each of these pores, being the aperture of a little tube a quarter of an inch long, it follows that, in a square inch of skin on the palms of the hand, there... | |
 | Spencer Thomson - Medicine - 1852 - 606 pages
...been made respecting them, by Mr. Erasmus Wilson, the well known writer upon the skin, who says, " I 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,... | |
 | 1852 - 604 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 aperture of a little tube of a quarter of an inch long, it follows, that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there... | |
 | Medicus (pseud.) - 1853 - 158 pages
...like an estimate of the value of the perspiratory system in relation to the rest of the organism, 1 counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the...of these pores being the aperture of a little tube, (us before named,) of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on... | |
 | Hygiene - 1855 - 332 pages
...rest of the organism, I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in the 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 palm of the hand,... | |
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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. 
