On the growth of the recruit and young soldier : with a view to a judicious selection of "growing lads" for the army, and a regulated system of training for recruits / by William Aitken.

Date:
1862
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Credit: On the growth of the recruit and young soldier : with a view to a judicious selection of "growing lads" for the army, and a regulated system of training for recruits / by William Aitken. 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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    Fig. I. 2 The shaft of the arm-hone also (Fig. II,) continues to increase in length till the twenty- fifth year of life; and so long as this growth continues, a portion of soft, vascular, and grow- ing tissue intervenes between the shaft and the head of the bone. It is not till about the twentieth year of life that this soft substance is converted into bone, and the principal bone of the arm is consolidated. The lower end of the bone of the fore-arm, (Fig. III.), to which the hand is mainly fixed Fig. I. One of the last true ribs; 1. The principal piece: 2. The thin bony jnece sujKiradded, and known .-is the Epiphysial of the head of the rib: li. The thin bony piece sui)eraddcd, and known as the Epijihi/vs oi the tubercle of the rib. The gmwth of these su]>eradded pieces conunencea between the sixteenth and twentieth years of life ; and they coalesce (or become luiited l)y bone) with the principal piece of the rib abont the twentj^-fifth year of life.
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