142 A BIOMETRIC STUDY OF BASAL METABOLISM IN MAN. 



Fubini and Ronchi 53 measured one man, marking out the anatomi- 

 cal regions of the body and determining the areas geometrically. 



Bouchard 54 measured five adults. 



Lissauer 55 measured 12 dead babies, only one of which he con- 

 sidered a normal child, by covering the body with silk paper and then 

 measuring the area of the paper geometrically or with a planimeter. 



Sytscheff 56 measured 10 infants under one year of age but com- 

 puted no constants. 



Du Bois and Du Bois 57 measured the surface-area of 5 individuals 

 with great care. 



TABLE 46. "Constant" term of Meeh formula as determined by direct measurement. 



In the development of a graphic method of determining body- 

 surface area, 58 20 individuals were photographed in different selected 

 positions and the areas of the prints were determined by means of the 

 planimeter. 



Du Bois and Du Bois 59 give a table which we reproduce in a some- 

 what modified form herewith, table 46, showing that actual surface- 

 area measurements have been made on a total of 20 adult individuals. 



53 Fubini and Ronchi, Moleschott's Untersuchungen z. Naturlehre, 1881, 12. 



54 Bouchard, Trait6 de pathologic generate, Paris, 1900, 3, p. 200, 384. 

 66 Lissauer, Jahrb. f. Kinderheilk, N.F., 1903, 58, p. 392. 



66 Sytscheff, Measurement of volume and surface of children of varying ages, Diss., St. Peters- 



burg, 1902. (From the Clinic of Children's Diseases of Professor Gundobin). See also 

 Gundobin, Die Besonderheiten des Kindesalters. Berlin, 1912, pp. 53-54 (section on body 

 surface of children; quotes Sytscheff and gives table of Sytscheff' s measurements on p. 54 



67 Du Bois and Du Bois, op. cit. 



58 Benedict, Am. Journ. Physiol., 1916, 41, p. 275. 

 69 Du Bois and Du Bois, loc. cit., p. 871. 



