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form of curve, which I have seen, the daily percentages 

 of increment for man covering the whole period of 

 growth. In order to get the results together, I have 

 confined myself here to the representation of the 

 yearly percentages. Now from the age of zero to 

 the age of one year, you see according to Table II., a 

 child is able to increase its weight 200 per cent.; but 

 from the end of the first to the end of the second 



100% 



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10 II "2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 



FIG. 37. 



year, only 20 per cent, and thereafter it fluctuates in 

 the neighbourhood of 10 per cent, a year until the 

 age of thirteen. At fourteen or fifteen there is a 



