STUDIES IN GROWTH

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The need for normal figures on the growth of different parts of the body presented itself to me as a result of my studies on the growth and metabolism in pathologic cases during the last two years.1Since these data were not available, figures were compiled from a series of body surface measurements, taken, according to the Du Bois linear formula, on a group of clinically normal American children on whom studies had previously been made to determine the normal standards of basal metabolism.2These were average children within the accepted normal limits of height and weight for age, and do not represent exceptionally well nourished or poorly developed children. A description of these children has been given in an earlier publication.2 The measurements were plotted on charts, and smoothed curves drawn to indicate the trend of growth of the different parts of the body. These curves

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