The red blood cells number to some twenty-five trillions...
The red blood cells number to some twenty-five trillions, and yet each one of us has been originated as a single cell, or what they call it a fertilized egg. It was from this single egg that all our cells were then derived by a [ 592 ] process of cleavage, or division! Cells are continually dying and being replaced in our body. Millions of dead cells are washed from the surface of the skin, every time we bathe.
It has been scientifically estimated that during every second of our life ten millions of our red cells die, and are replaced by the new ones! It follows therefore, that our body is…
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