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DE. BOTD’S TABLES OE THE WEIGHTS 
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Showing the maximum, minimum, and average height and weight of the human body, and wei^h 
compiled from 2086 cases, 1025 males and 1061 females, examined in the St. MarylebonJ 
and mean weight of the lungs in health and disease; of the hearts and livers above and 
also shouTi. I 
NOTE. 
The weights are given in poiuids, ounces, and decimal parts of an ounce a^•oirdupois. 
The following method was pursued in examining the body : — It was measured from the vertex of the head to the inside of the 
foot behind the ball of the great toe ; after being weighed, the spinal canal was opened, the cord with its membranes removed from 
below upwards, as high as possible, and weiglied. The measurements of the head were next taken : the circumference around the 
occipital protuberance to the centre of the forehead ; the antero-posterior from the former to the space between the eye-brows ; and 
the transverse from the opening of one ear, over the vertex, to the opening of the other. The brain was then examined ; the right 
and left cerebral hemispheres were each removed in slices to the tentorium, and weighed ; the tentorium being divided on each 
side, the cerebellum, -ndth pons and medulla, were raised ; the crura cerebelli being divided close to the pons, each part was weighed, 
the pons and medulla together. Tlie thoracic organs were next examined : the lungs having been taken out, the heart was removed 
by dividing the great vessels inside, and close to the pericardium ; the cavities were opened, cleansed, and the organ weighed. The 
abdominal organs were weighed in tlie order in which they are set down in the Tables. 
Still-born ; full period. 
Assigned causes of 
Causes. 
death. 
Males. 
Females. 
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■■3 /Digestive organs 
tr. Eespiratorv organs 
§ •< (Enlarged thvmus) 
» Vascular system 
Pi (Nervous system 
Craniotomy 
Inquest cases 
Unknown causes 
Total 
1 
2 
8 
4 
23 
5 
2 
6 
1 
0 
6 
0 
12 
0 
1 
12 
51 
32 
■■3 /Digestive organs 
6 
11 
to 1 Respiratory organs 
0 
0 
2 ■( (Enlarged thvmus) 
1 
1 
o 
S Vascular system 
3 
3 
-- 
P (Nervous svstem 
12 
7 
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Inquest cases 
9 
8 
Unknown causes 
14 
15 
1 
Total 
45 
45 
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1 
