 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 about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand,...  The Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes - Page 131by Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robley Dunglison - Physiology - 1846 - 704 pages
...Wilsonb counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3528 in a square inch; and each of these pores being the aperture of a little...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. To obtain... | |
 | 1846 - 400 pages
...long. Of these pores, there are in the palm of the hand, about 3528 in a square inch, consequently, 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 as seventy-three feet in every square inch of skin is something... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1846 - 408 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, 73 feet. In other parts... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Erasmus Wilson - Skin - 1847 - 560 pages
...organism, I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little...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. On the pulps... | |
 | 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 inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal 882 inches, 73 feet. In other parts of... | |
 | George Alfred Walker - 1847 - 100 pages
...diameter. A modern anatomist has calculated " that in a square inch of skin in the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73^ feet; and that taking a fair average for the whole body, we have 48,600 yards, or nearly 28 miles of tubes... | |
 | Calvin Cutter - Anatomy - 1847 - 366 pages
...organism, we counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3528 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 palm of the hand there... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 pages
...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 aperture of a little...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... | |
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