HRDLICKA] PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Temperature in relation to stature — C!oiitinued 

 PIMA 



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Comparisons of the Indian temperatures obtained with those of 

 white children of similar statures are possible to only a limited extent, 

 owing to lack of suitable data respecting the latter. According to 

 Landois and Stirling " the sublingual temperature of white children 

 of from 5 to 9 years of age (about 99 to 123 cm. in stature) averages 

 37.72° C, equivalent to 99.9° F. This is practically the same as 

 the temperature of the children of similar height among the Indians, 

 with the exception of the Apache boys, for whom the records are slightly 

 lower. In the white adult the temperature in the mouth averages 

 37.19° C, or98.9° F. (Landois and Stirling), and that of adolescent In- 

 dians is very nearly the same. On the whole, up to adult life, the dif- 

 ferences in temperature between the two races are quite insignificant. 



As to the differences, in both sexes and in very nearly all the stature 

 groups the temperature in the Pima exceeds b}^ from two-tenths to 

 eight-tenths of a degree that in the Apache. With the females this 

 difference, as will be seen later, extends even to the adults. 



Sex differences are not prominent, nevertheless there is a slight 

 excess in temperature in most of the female groups. The taller girls 

 (above about 12 years of age) among the Apache make the excep- 

 tion, showing in three groups a very slightly lower average than the 

 boys. This is probably accidental, for the minima and maxima in 

 these groups suggest a contrary condition with regard to the girls, 

 and there is no inferiority in this respect in the average of the adult 

 females of these people. The following table shows — 



u Human Physiology, Philadelphia, 1892, 414. 



