The development of the child.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1902
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Credit: The development of the child. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    enumeration of some of these is so convincing as to justify examining Vierordt’s table, which shows the per- centage weights in the new born and the adult.1 Some of these variations seem small when expressed in terms of percentage weight of the whole body; but when they are stated in terms of percentage of their own weight, the result seems much different, and much greater. In this latter method one could state the increase in the heart to be from twelve to thirteen times the original size, in the liver about eleven times, in the lungs about twenty times, in the brain about four times, and so on. Take another particular instance: To say that the New Born 1 Skeleton 16.7% Muscles 23.4 Skin 11.3 Brain 14-34 Spinal Cord 0.20 Eyes 0.28 Salivary Glands 0.24 Thyroid Gland 0.24 Lungs 2.16 Heart 0.89 Thymus Gland 0.54 Stomach and Intestines 2.53 Pancreas 0.12 Liver 4-39 Spleen 0.41 Suprarenal Capsules 0.31 Kidneys 0.88 Testicles 0.037 Adult 15-35% 43-09 6.30 2-37 0.067 0.023 0.12 0.05 2.01 0.52 0.0086 2-34 0.15 2.77 0.346 0.014 0.48 0.08
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