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Excerpt from The Heart and Its Function
The whole quantity of blood in the body has been reckoned at about one-fourteenth part of the weight of the body; the blood in the body of a man weighing fourteen stone Will therefore amount to one stone, or fourteen pounds. If we accept this as a probable average of the weight of blood in the body, then as fourteen pounds amount to 224 ounces, and as the left ventricle contains, as we suppose, only 3 ounces, it follows that the whole blood of a man weighing 196 lbs. Passes through his left ventricle in nearly 75 of its systoles or contractions. And as we suppose the heart to contract only 70 times in a minute, then the whole of the blood of such a man passes through his heart 48 times in one hour, or 1152 times in one day. Of course the length of time that the Whole of the blood in a man takes to pass through his heart depends upon three factors, - first, the actual amount of blood he possesses; second, the size of his ventricular cavity; and thirdly, the rate of its pulsation.
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