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Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. From before one ear to before the other— 1] inches and #. Here thé utmost difference between the twins is 4ths of an inch in one dimension—%ths in a previous dimension being compensated by 2ths in a subsequent one. In comparing the females of the last case with the males of the first, it will be observed that the dimensions of the female heads, though their sub- jects were two months older, are always consider-~ ably less than than those of the males. The same was the case in other examinations. : III. It is, however, by comparing a female twin with a male of the same birth, and that in various cases, that this pomt can be determined most satisfactorily. Having, in the preceding cases, seen how nearly twins of the same sex approach each other in dimensions, such approach appears to be a general rule as to them: when, therefore, a much greater difference is found between twins of different sex, such difference appears to be a general rule as to these. Thus, in the heads of twins, male and female, of two months, the children of William Steele, who liberally permitted their examination, I found the following dimensions :— In the male, Thomas—