NOTES. 



1 Some pertinent remarks on this subject have been made by Mr. C. Heath 

 in a pamphlet ' On Anatomy in relation to Physic.' 



2 In several adult normal skeletons measured in the Hunterian Museum, the 

 average diameters of the upper opening of the chest were ant ero- posterior, about 

 2 J inches; transverse, about 4^ inches. In the skeleton of O'Brien, the Irish 

 giant, the antero-posterior diameter measures 4 inches, the transverse 6. 



3 Special experiments upon this subject were made many years ago by the late 

 Professor Quekett in the work-rooms of the College of Surgeons. 



4 See a beautiful illustration of this in Sir C. Bell's 'Anatomy of Expression,' 

 p. 1 60. 



5 See some good observations on the position of the enlarged spleen, by Sir 

 W. Jenner, 'Brit. Med. Journ.,' Jan. 16, 1869. 



6 ' Lectures on Rest and Pain,' by John Hilton, F.R.S. London, 1863. p. 280. 



I Nelaton, 'Pathologic chirurgicale,' t. iv. p. 441. 1848. 



8 Bigelow, ' Mechanism of Dislocation and Fracture of the Hip.' Philadelphia, 

 1869. 



9 See Pruge on 'Ossa Acromialia' (' Zeitschrift fur rationelle Medizin'), 

 3. Reihe, Bd. vii. 1859. 



10 See on this subject a monograph, 'Canalis Supra-Con dyloideus Humeri.' 

 By W. Griiber. Petersburg, 1856. 



II 'Ueber Grund und Bedeutung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand.' 

 Stuttgart, 1846. 



12 For further information on this subject, see a paper by Mr. Walsham, in 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vol. xii. 



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