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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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. Works of reference on Antliropometiy . • • ^. ix.-xxii. INTRODUCTION. Objects and advantages of autlu-opometric inquiries—Importance to the individual of ascertaining the changes ia the foi-m of the hody under the influences of age, sex, nurture, occupation, exercise, training, sanitary surrounding, and disease—Social importance of ascertain- ing the proportions most favourable to health, longevity, and phy- sical endurance, for the insurance of lives and fitness for special duties—Political importance of the subject, as bearing on recruitiug for the army and navy, and the employment of children in factories and workshops—Scientific importance of antlu'opometry : the effect of climate and seasons; the diagnosis of diseases, accidents, and deformities ; the classification of the various races of mankind, jj. 1-4 CHAPTER I. Methods of studying the proportions of the body—Sculptors' and artists' measurements not suitable for scientific purposes—Su- Joshua Rey- nolds's central form in man—Professor Carus's method—His module equal to a tliird of the length of the adult sjpinal column—His statuette of typical proportions—Objections to Professor Carus's a priori method of investigation—M. Quetelet's method, based on actual measui-ements of the living model, and the deduction 6com them of the mean man {liomine moyen)—Table and diagram illus- trating Quetelet's views—Difi'erence between an average and a mean —VariabHity of type in difierent races of mankind—Quetelet's tables based on too small a nimiber of observations, and therefore not rehable . I ....... p. 5-25