A manual of anthropometry, or, A guide to the physical examination and measurement of the human body : containing a systematic table of measurements, an anthropometrical chart or register, and instructions for making measurement on a uniform plan / by Charles Roberts.

Date:
1878
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Credit: A manual of anthropometry, or, A guide to the physical examination and measurement of the human body : containing a systematic table of measurements, an anthropometrical chart or register, and instructions for making measurement on a uniform plan / by Charles Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. This small book is a portion of an Introduction to a larger work on the Physical Development and Proportions of the Human Body, which I have in pre- paration ; hence its fragmentary character. It is published in this form in order, if possible, to incite a wider interest in an important and interesting field of study hitherto much neglected, and to invite the cooperation of those observers who have already devoted some attention to the subject, with a view to establishing a uniform method of making and recording measurements on the external form of man for scientific purposes. The Systematic Table of Measurements and the Anthropometrical Chart or Register have been con- structed after long and careful consideration of the subject, on anatomical, physiological, and practical grounds; and I trust their fitness for the purposes indicated will be generally admitted. Although at first sight the scheme may seem too elaborate for