OP THE DIFFERENCES, &C. 305 



501. During infancy, the general figure is but little 

 different, but becomes more so as age advances, when 

 the round and plump breasts, the general conformation, 

 the delicacy, softness, and the proportionally low sta- 

 ture of the female, form a striking contrast with the 

 sinewy and robust body of the male.* 



502. The relation of parts, in well-formed females, 

 is somewhat different from that in the male. For in- 

 stance, in the female the face is proportionally 

 smaller; the abdominal and lumbar portion of the 

 trunk longer ; the hips broader, not, however, if well 

 formed, broader than the shoulders ; the buttocks 

 larger ; the legs in their descent gradually approach 

 the knees. (B) 



503. A similar difference is remarkable in the os- 

 seous system. In females, the bones are, cseteris pa- 

 ribus, smoother and rounder, the cylindrical more slen- 

 der, and the flat thinner ; to pass over individual dif- 

 ferences, v. c. the very slight prominence of the frontal 

 sinuses, the more elliptic edges of the alveoli, the 

 greater narrowness of the chest, the greater capacity 



about sixteen weeks formation, in which, although they were most beautifully 

 and correctly made, the difference of the genitals was not at first discoverable. 

 In every other respect, in the general figure, physiognomy, the dimensions of 

 the loins, &c. they were perfectly similar. 



* Consult, besides our great countryman Alb. Diirer, Vier Bucher von 

 menschlicher Proportion. Nurenb. 1528. fol. the two celebrated male and female 

 figures, painted by Titian or one of his school, in Vesalius's Epitome sitor. libror. 

 d. e. h. anatome. Basil. 1542. fol. 



The three delineated by that excellent artist, Jer. Laidresse, in Bidloo, tab. i. 

 ii. iii. 



And Girardet's drawings in the Cours complet ffAnatomie grav<! par A. E. 

 Gautier et erpliqieJ par M. Jadelot. Nantes, 1773. large fol. 



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