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Fig. 8.— Height sitting. 



Height sitting.-— Make the subject sit against a wall, so that the 



whole of his back, from the 

 sacrum to the shoulders, shall 

 be in contact with the wall, 

 as in Fig. 8. Measure with 

 the standard from the ground 

 to the top of his head. He 

 should not be allowed to sit 

 on the ground, but on some 

 article of known height, such 

 as the box of instruments, the 

 height of which, 10 centi- 

 metres, should be deducted 

 from the measurement ob- 

 tained. The legs should be 

 extended and parallel. 



Height kneeling. — Make the 

 subject kneel on both knees, 

 taking care that the thigh is 

 perpendicular to the ground and that there is no stooping. Then 

 measure to the top of the head with the long standard. 



Height to junction of sternum and ribs. — Make the subject stand 

 with his back to the wall and measure with the long standard from 

 the ground to the fourchette stemale, i.e., to the junction of the 

 sternum with the ribs. The point to be taken is the lower end of 

 the gladiolus, not the ensiform cartilage, which lies below and is not 

 so easily reached. 



Bigoniac breadth.—' -Measure with the cephalometer the maximum 



breadth of the outer surfaces 

 of the inferior maxillary bone 

 from one angle to the other 

 (E— E in Fig. 1). Plate 

 No. 56 at page 55 of the ninth 

 edition of Gray's Anatomy 

 shows the angle, which is 

 the point to be taken. 



Length of the fore-arm. — 

 Measure with the sliding scale 

 (glissiere anthropometrique) 

 from the olecranon process of 

 the ulna to the end of the 

 middle finger, the left arm 

 being laid on a table as in 

 figure 9. Vide plate 220 

 in Topinard's Elements d y 

 Anthropologic Generate. 



Fig. 9.— Length of fore-arm. 



