 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
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Physiology - 1859 - 942 pages
...quarter of an inch in length, it follows that, in a square inch of skin from the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73} feet. The number of glandulae in other parts of the Skin is sometimes greater, but i.« generally less tban... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Microscopes - 1861 - 644 pages
...3,O20 tremity of the fingers, as seen in a thin perpendicular in a square inch. »««« of the .kin. 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. Surely such... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Microscopes - 1861 - 650 pages
...found 3,02o tremilyofthefinger,, as seen in a thin perpendicular in a square inch. i««on of the ,kin. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little...about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in NN tt square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches,... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - 1862 - 340 pages
...hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now each of these poros 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 exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet. Surely such... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 786 pages
...organism, I counted the perspiratory pores on tho palm 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 on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet. Surely such... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 780 pages
...hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tnbe 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 tnbe equal to 882 inches, or 73^ feet, (surely such... | |
 | Agriculture - 1863 - 606 pages
...hand, and found 3.528 in a »quare inch. Now, each of these pores being the »perture of a little tube about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of akin on the pilm of the band, there exists i length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73} feet." " To... | |
 | George West Royston Pigott - 1865 - 346 pages
...about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that, in a square inch of the skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet ; surely such an amount of drainage, of 73 feet in every square inch of the skin, assuming this to be the average of the whole body, is... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - Food - 1865 - 500 pages
...the hand, and found 8528 in a square inch. 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 exists a length of tube equal to 832 inches. I think that 2800 might... | |
 | Spencer Thomson - 1866 - 786 pages
...says, " 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 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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