Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infant and children; massage and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life.

  • Louis Starr
Date:
1894
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infant and children; massage and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    process, however, does not affect all parts of the body equally, as may be seen in the accompanying diagram.* (Fig. 2.) The description is so well put in the journal from which this figure is taken that I cannot do better than quote it word for word. Fig. DIAGRAM SHOWING RELATIVE STATURE FROM I TO 22 YEARS OF AGB. The six figures represent the average relative stature of males of the ages of one, five, nine, thir- teen, seventeen, and twenty-two years. It will be no - ticed that the figures all stand on a level plain. The tops of the heads are connected by a dotted line, and * Babyhood, Vol. II, page 311. Paper by Leroy M. Yale, M.D.
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