24 PERSONAL APPEARANCES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. 



stature is less, the neck broad, and shoulders rounded ; 

 the bones are more fragile, the rib cartilages fixed and 

 hardened; the lower jaw, from loss of teeth, reverts some- 

 what to the infantile form (Fig. 6), whilst the chin appears 

 FlG 6 * more prominent and approxi- 



mates to the sharpened pro- 

 jecting nose; and the skin 

 hangs loosely, and in folds 

 and wrinkles, in proportion 

 as the fatty layer has de- 

 creased and the muscles have 

 diminished. 



Of the differences in the two sexes suffice it to note 

 that the average stature of women is less than that of 

 men ; that in the former there is a greater tendency to 

 the growth of the subcutaneous fat, and that the skeleton 

 of the pelvic region is modified so that the hips are wider 

 in the female than the male. 



CHAPTER II. 



CHANGES IN THE FATTY LAYER. 



HAVING thus as it were propounded the bases upon 

 which the form of the body depends, let us consider 



* Skull of aged person. It is unusually long from before back- 

 wards in the above figure. 



