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.