The growth of the body in man.—The relationship between the body-weight and the body-length (steam-length)

Abstract

A number of investigations carried out in recent years by Prof. Dreyer and myself have indicated the existence of several previously unknown relationships which hold throughout a given species of animals between functions of the body-weight and various other ascertained measurements. In connection with work of a similar character on which we are engaged, I undertook some years ago the collection and examination of data bearing on the growth of Man. This work is still incomplete, but certain results of interest have already emerged.