WEIGHT INCREASE AND INCREASE IN STATURE. 



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us from the remotest antiquity, but we may enlarge 

 upon it. Like a house, it is intended to resist destruc- 

 tion from the outside influences always acting upon it. 

 If we interpret this mortality curve as an expression of 

 the perfection of the bodily house, we find that during 



30 



25 



10 



40 



GO 



80 



100 VEARS 



FlG. 14. Mortality curve from Hensen, based on the figures of 

 Bockh, 1876. The curve is intended to show the percentage 

 of deaths occurring at each age. The calculations are 

 based on the number of persons of that age present in a 

 population of 1,000,000. (Hermann's Hcmdbtich der Phvsio- 

 logic.} 



the first five years of life, when, to extend the simile, the 

 materials are in the process of being put together and 

 adjusted to one another, the house offers but a small 



