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THE RATE OF GROWTH 



T 



CH. 



4-100 



--100 



Fig. 17. 



3 10 



Age in days 

 Mean weight of American infants. From Meredith and Brown's data. 



2 4 6 8 10 



months 

 Fig. 18. Curve of a child's pre-natal growth, in length or stature; and corre- 

 sponding curve of mean monthly increments (mm.). (Smoothed curves.) 



