L. How many men are there?

S. Fifteen hundred millions.

L. (Referring to notes.) Take your pencil and set down some statistics.

In a healthy man's lower intestine 28,000,000 microbes are born daily

and die daily. In the rest of a man's body 122,000,000 microbes are born

daily and die daily. The two sums aggregate-what?

S. About 150,000,000.

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