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  1. PEDAGOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION THE MODERN TENDENCIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE RELATION THAT THEY BEAR TO PEDAGOGY
    1. Human Hygiene
    2. The Method
    3. The Method to be Followed in These Lectures
    4. The Limits of Pedagogical Anthropology
    5. FOOTNOTES:
  5. CHAPTER I CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY
    1. The Material Substratum of Life The Synthetic Concept of the Individual in Biology
    2. The Formation of Multicellular Organisms
    3. Form and Types of Stature
    4. Canons of Form
    5. Abnormal Types of Stature and General Principles of Biological Ethics
    6. Abnormal Types According to De Giovanni's Theory
    7. Types of Stature in Criminals
    8. Types of Non-violent Criminals (Parasites)
    9. Types of Violent Criminals (Assault, Mayhem, Homicide)
    10. Extreme or Infantile Types, Nanism and Gigantism, Extra-social Types
    11. Summary of the Types of Stature
    12. Summary of the Scientific Principles Illustrated in the Course of our Discussion
    13. The Stature
    14. Variations in Stature Through the Different Ages
    15. Variations in Stature due to Mechanical Causes of Adaptation to Environment
    16. Variations Due to Adaptation in Connection with Causes of Various Kinds—Social, Physiological, Physical, Psychic, Pathological, Etc.
    17. Physical Conditions—Heat, Light, Electricity
    18. Summary of Stature
    19. Summary of the Scientific Principles Illustrated in The Course of the Exposition of Our Subject
    20. Weight
    21. FOOTNOTES:
  6. CHAPTER II CRANIOLOGY
    1. Head and Cranium
    2. Normal Forms of the Cranium
    3. The Cephalic Index
    4. The Volume of the Cranium
    5. Face and Visage
    6. The Normal Visage
    7. The Neck
    8. FOOTNOTES:
  7. CHAPTER III THE THORAX
  8. CHAPTER IV THE PELVIS
  9. CHAPTER V THE LIMBS
    1. The Hand
    2. FOOTNOTES:
  10. CHAPTER VI THE SKIN AND THE PIGMENTS
    1. Morphological Analysis of Certain Organs (Stigmata)
    2. Distribution of Malformations
    3. FOOTNOTES:
  11. CHAPTER VII TECHNICAL PART
    1. The Form
    2. The Cranium
    3. Measurements of the Thorax
    4. The Personal Error
  12. CHAPTER VIII STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
  13. CHAPTER IX BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE PUPIL AND HIS ANTECEDENTS
    1. Summary of the Biographic History of an Idiot Boy
    2. Diaries
  14. CHAPTER X THE APPLICATION OF BIOMETRY TO ANTHROPOLOGY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE MEDIAL MEN
    1. FOOTNOTES:
  15. TABLES SUMMARIZING
    1. The Mean Proportions of the Body According To Age
  16. TABLES OF CALCULATIONS
    1. I Tables For Calculating the Cephalic Index
    2. II Tables For Calculating the Ponderal Index
  17. INDEX
    1. (A.—Names)
    2. (B.—Subjects)
  18. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE


INDEX

(A.—Names)

Agyba, Hilany, 110

Alix, 319

Ammon, 217

Aristotle, 9

Auvard, Alfred, 175


Bajenoff, N., 250

Bateson, William, 63

Beethoven, Ludwig v., 268

Bellini, 264

Bencivenni, Ildebrando, 15

Benedickt, 446

Bianco, 131

Bichat, Xavier, 183

Binet, Alfred, 184, 217, 219, 223, 230, 231, 235, 244, 250, 273, 274, 275

Bischoff, Theodor L. W., 229

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 320

Bonnifay, Jules, 165, 166, 235

Borghese, Pauline, 267, 270

Botticelli, Sandro, 80

Boxich, G. T., 101, 102

Boyd, 225, 227

Broca, Paul, 1, 2, 201, 208, 210, 212, 213, 221, 228, 229, 243, 250, 251, 254, 321, 364, 377, 382

Brugia, Raffaele, 244, 271, 355

Bruno, Giordano, 340

Buffon, 110

Byron, Lord, 256


Cabanis, 135

Caianus, 110

Calcagni, Menotti, 416

Calori, 229

Camper, 370, 382

Carducci, Giosue, 15, 470

Carrara, Mario, 318

Cassan, 154

Cavalieri, Lina, 264, 267

Celli, 160

Cervesato, 153

Collignon, René, 73, 381

Correns, 50

Cromwell, Oliver, 256

Cuénot, Lucien, 51

Cuvier, 256, 260


Daffner, Franz, 138, 236, 237

Dante, 246, 359

Darbishire, 55

Darwin, Charles, 2, 3, 46, 264, 280, 340, 455

Davenport, Charles Benedict, 455

De Giovanni, Achille, 11-14, 17, 96, 98, 99, 101, 364, 428, 465

Deniker, Joseph, 109, 110, 211, 217, 242, 243

De Sanctis, Sante, 146, 149, 151, 156, 281, 319, 352, 408, 409, 425, 446

Dubois, Eugène, 192, 257

Duncan, 173

Dunker, 455


Fawcette, 217

Fenelon, 142

Féré, Ch., 301

Ferri, Enrico, 250

Ferriani, Lino, 413

Figueira, Fernandes, 113

Fraebelius, 296


Galton, Francis, 455

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 340

Geffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Éttienne, 46

Godin, Paul, 83, 182, 282, 298, 309, 325

Goethe, 469

Goldstein, 284, 296

Gosio, 137


Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich, 38, 200, 343

Heinke, 455

Helguero, Fernando de, 460

Herodotus, 340

Hertoghe, 155

Höller, von, 208

Homer, 339

Hrdlička, Ales, 84, 128, 218, 349

Humphry, 200

Huxley, 38

Hurst, C. C., 50


Ingerslevs, 173


Jaest, 110

James, William, 140

Johannson, 217


Koch, Robert, 159

Kollman, 210


Laloy, 40

Lamarck, 2, 46

Lange, 140

Lapique, Louis, 257

Lasegue, 146

Lebon, 230, 250

Lelut, 338

Leopardi, 244

Le Play, 452, 453

Lexis, 115

Linnaeus, 2, 320

Livi, Ridolfo, 110, 111, 129, 181, 182, 183, 215, 218, 369, 393, 397, 402

Lombroso, Cesare, 4-10, 11, 14, 17, 67, 101, 103, 244, 257, 339, 340, 341, 343, 351, 384, 411, 416, 445

Lombroso, Gina, 313

Luccheni, 15

Luciani, Luigi, 153

Ludwig, 455


MacDonald, 85, 167

Mahomed, 135

Malpighi, Marcello, 319

Mancini, Maria, 264

Manouvrier, Léon, 74, 76, 81, 88, 90, 91, 119, 230, 257, 258, 268, 375

Mantegazza, Paolo, 261

Marconi, Guglielmo, 15

Marro, Antonio, 130, 131, 142

Massa, Signorina, 185, 293

Massini, 224, 225

Maurel, 299, 301

Mazzoni, Ofelia, 288

Meckel, 154

Mendel, Gregor, 50, 51, 53, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 455, 460

Messedaglia, 257

Meunier, 176

Michelangelo, 340

Mill, John Stuart, 10

Misdea, Michele, 412

Moige, 148

Moleschott, Jakob, 340

Monti, 364

Morel, 6, 339

Morselli, Enrico, 6, 21-23, 319, 344

Mosso, Angelo, 364

Musolino, 15


Naegeli, Karl Wilhelm von, 46, 47

Newton, Sir Isaac, 398

Niceforo, Alfredo, 19, 127, 182, 184, 253

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 251


Oloriz, 130


Pagliani, 131, 296

Parchappe, 250

Pastorello, 419

Pearson, Karl, 217

Pieraccini, 120, 121

Pinard, 173

Purkinje, 319


Quétélet, Lambert Adolphe-Jacques, 10, 65, 110, 113, 117, 179, 217, 233, 234, 235, 295, 297, 391, 393, 398, 400, 454, 455, 459, 469


Ranke, 210

Retzius, Anders Adolph, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213

Rosa, 48, 49, 50

Rossi, 345, 347, 348

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 141, 355

Rubens, 80

Russell, 50

Rütimeyer, Louis, 208


Sacchi, 164

Sandler, 118

Schafer, 173

Schiller, 256

Schultze, 38

Séguin, Édouard, 33, 426, 449

Sergi, Giuseppe, 14-21, 60, 62, 109, 202, 205, 207, 208, 209, 243, 270, 323, 327, 371, 428, 450, 451

Sergi, Sergio, 221, 247, 327

Sick, 152, 153

Simon, 223

Stoppato, 153

Stratz, 86, 113


Tarde, 261

Thulié, Henri, 441

Topinard, Paul, 110, 210, 211, 243

Tschermack, E., 50

Türcker, Ada, 412


Veronese, Paolo, 104

Verworn, 39

Vierordt, 180

Viola, Giacinto, 65, 364, 455, 461, 463, 464, 465, 468

Virchow, Rudolf, 208, 243

Vitali, Vitale, 232, 235

Vitruvius, 315

Voltaire, 140

Vries, Hugo de, 47, 50, 62, 455


Wagner, 228

Welcker, Hermann, 200, 224, 225

Wernicke, 173

Westermarck, 217

Winckel, 172


Zander, 154

Zanolli, Velio, 257

Zimmermann, 314

INDEX

(B.—Subjects)

Abdomen, measurements of the, 386

Abnormal types of man, 94

Abortion due to syphilis, 157

Akkas, stature of the, 108-09

Acromegalia, 154

Addison's disease, 154

Albinism, 329

Anatomical points, 361, 373, 374, 378, 385

Anger, expression of, 279

Angles, facial, 269, 381-382

Anomalies of buccal apparatus, 336
of ear, 333-335
of eye, 333
of eyebrows and beard, 331
of hair, 330
of nose, 335-336
of pigment, 329
of teeth, 336
of thorax, 300, 301
of wrinkles, 329

Antecedents of pupil, 405 et seq.
near biopathological, 407
remote, 406
sociological, 411

Anthropological form used in New York Juvenile Asylum, 421

Anthropology, criminal, 4-11
defined, 1
physiological, 11-14
technique of, 361-387

Anthropometer, 362-363

Ape, brain of, 229

Arms, total spread of, 69, 74, 310, 367

Arrest of development, 145-170, 295
due to alcohol, 156
due to infant illnesses, 162
due to malaria, 160-161
due to pellagra, 161
due to rickets, 164
due to syphilis, 157

Asymmetry, cranial, 196, 372
facial, 271, 282, 346, 383
functional, 271


Biographic chart, Commune of Bologna, 431
of Italian reformatories, 432
Pastorello's, 420
Sergi's, 429

Biographic history of pupil, 404
pedagogical advantages of, 441
of an idiot boy, 431 et seq.

Birth-marks, 329

Brachycephalic races, 214

Brachydactylism, 317

Brachyscelia, 82-91

Brain, chemistry of, 247
convolutions of, 221-223
embryonal development of, 220-221
morphological normality in relation to age, 237
rhythm of growth of, 225-227
volume of, 229
weight of, 224

Brunettes, suppressed, 324

Buccal apparatus, anomalies of, 336


Calf of leg, absence of, 311

Carnet maternel, 174-175, 273

Cells, animal, 43
vegetable, 43

Cephalic index, 207-220
at different ages, 217
for Italy, 214
nomenclature, 210-211

Cephalometry, 370

Cephaloscopy, 370

Cerebral development, influence of biological factor upon, 255
influence of economic conditions, 253
influence of exercise, 254

Cerebral hypophysis, 152, 153

Cervical pleiades, 157

Chameprosopic face, 263, 265

Chiromancy, 312, 318

Childbirth, dangerous modern, 307

Children's Houses, 123-124, 138, 143-145, 280, 288, 422, 423, 443

Chinese, civilization of, 91-92
psycho-ethnic character of, 77

Chromatic charts, Broca's, 321

Circumference, axillary, 385
of cranium, 233-242, 376
submammary, 385
of thorax, 368, 385

Club-foot, 312

Convolutions of the brain, 222-223

Coordinates, 394

Craniology, 186-283

Craniometric points, 373-374

Craniometry, 370, 373

Cranioscopic norms, 371-372

Cranioscopy, 370

Cranium, animal, 189
bones of human, 187-188
characteristics of human, 191-192
measurements of, 369-385
morphological evolution of, 197
of new-born child, 197
normal forms of, 202
ossification of, 200-201
varieties of:
acrocephalic, 207, 374
beloid, 205
clinocephalic, 207, 372
cuboid, 205
cymbocephalic, 372
ellipsoid, 203
ovoid, 203-204
oxycephalic, 372
pentagonoid, 204
plagiocephalic, 196, 372
platycephalic, 205
rhomboid, 204
scaphocephalic, 196, 372
sphenoid, 205
spheroid, 205
trapezoid, 206
trigonocephalic, 371
volume of, 220-259, 377

Criminals, non-violent, types of, 101-102
violent, types of, 102
stature in, types of, 101, 103

Cubic index, Broca's, 377

Curves, De Helguero's, 460


Deformations, definition of, 344
due to field labour, 121
due to mining, 121
due to school benches, 122, 302, 307, 349
due to stone-breaking, 121

Degeneration, signs of:
abnormal frontal diameters, 384
kinky hair, 330
polytrichia, 330
precocious wrinkles, 330
united eyebrows, 331
social causes of, 6

Dentition, record of first, 410

Diameter, biacromial, 385
bigoniac, 379, 383
bimammillary, 385
bizygomatic, 379, 383
of cranium, maximum antero-posterior, 374

Diameter of cranium, maximum transverse, 375
minimum frontal, 384
vertical, 375
of thorax, antero-posterior, 385
transverse, 385

Diameter of cranium, increase of maximum, 231
measurement of, 374

Diastemata, 337

Diet of children, 127

Dimensions of the body at different ages, 146-147

Dismimia, 282

Dolichocephalic races, 214

Dystrophies, toxical, 162


Ear, anatomy of, 334
anomalies of, 333-335
handle-shaped, 346
Morel's, 335
Wildermuth's, 335

Education of new-born child, 442

Electricity, effect on growth of stature, 139

Embryo, development of human, 45, 72

Embryonal face, 272

Environment, adaptation to, 79
influence of, 415

Enzymes, 154, 155
Ludwig's theory of, 42

Epilepsy, 136
a factor in criminality, 445
treatment of, 446

Error, personal, 387-390, 457

Eurafrican race, 214, 270

Eurasian race, 79, 214, 323

Evolution, theories of, 46-50

Exophthalmia, 333

Experimental sciences defined, 23

Expression, facial, 276 et seq.

Extra-social types, 103-105

Eye, anomalies of, 333
Mongolian, 333

Eyebrows, oblique, 331
united, 331


Face, chameprosopic, 262
embryonal, 272
evolution of, 272
human characteristics of, 260
leptoprosopic, 262
limits of, 259 et seq.
mesoprosopic, 263
orbicular, 263
skeleton of, 188-189
symmetry of, 383

Facial norm, 378

Family monograph, Le Play's, 452

Final causes, 40-42

Fingers, proportion between, 316

Flat-foot, 311

Fontanelles, cranial, 197

Form, the, 67-75, 361-369
canons of the, 74 et seq.
definition of, 69
fundamental laws of, 69

Freckles, 329

Frontal index, 232


Galloway, stature of Scotchmen of, 108-109

Gastrula, 45

Generation, hygiene of, 173, 176

Genius, man of, 264, 469, 476

Germinal potentialities, 63, 64

Gigantism, 104

Glands of internal secretion, 151-155, 163, 164

Goniometer, Broca's, 382

Gray hair, 326, 330
precocious, 330

Growth, defined, 81
effect of psychic stimuli on, 140-145
need of heat for, 132
of brain, due to alimentation, 245
due to cerebral exercise, 245
in woman, 227
rhythm of, 225, 226, 227
of head, rhythms of, 274
of limbs, 309
of neck, 282
of pelvis, 306
of stature, 112-114
of thorax, 294


Hair, curly, 327, 328
form of, 327-329
kinky, 327, 328
pigmentation of, 323-325, 327
smooth, 327
vortices, 330
wavy, 327, 328

Hair-roots, line of, 330

Hand, the, 312-319
dimensions of, 315
functional characteristics of, 316
in figurative speech, 313-314
in relation to other dimensions of the body, 315
psychological types of, 314

Heart, the, 285

Heredity, phenomena of, 50

Hexadactylism, 317

Hybridism, human, 60-65, 78, 79, 351, 467, 471
phenomena of, 51-67

Hygiene of generation, 173, 176

Hymn to bread, 126

Hypermimia, 281

Hypersthenic type, De Giovanni's, 99-100

Hyposthenic type, De Giovanni's, 96-98

Hypothyroidea, 153


Ichthyosis, 329

Index, cephalic, 207-220, 376
of ear, 380
facial, 380-381
of nose, 380
ponderal, 368
of segments of limbs, 310
of sexual mass, 257
thoracic, 299, 385
of visage, 263
vital, 296, 368

Indices, formula of, 367

Individual liberty of pupil, 123

Infantile atrophy, 153
types, 147-151

Infantilism, 146-164
due to alcohol, 156-157
anangioplastic, 162
due to denutrition, 162
dystrophic, 155-162
hereditary causes of, 155
hypertrophic, 162
myxedematous, 153, 155-156
pathogenesis of, 151 et seq.
due to syphilis, 157, 158
due to tuberculosis, 159

Intelligence, human, what it is, 252
human, how to diagnose it, 253
cerebral volume in relation to, 250

Invagination of cells, 43

Iris, pigmentation of, 325

Italians, stature of, 110-111


Japanese, stature of, 110

Joints, loose and stiff, 311

Juvenile delinquents, antecedents of, 413
psycho-physical character of, 413
teachers' notes on, 414

Knock-knees, 312

Kyphosis, 303, 306


Latium, young women of, 65, 78, 111, 216, 466

Leg, calf of, 311
curvature of, 312

Leptoprosopic face, 262

Liberty of children, 144

Light, effect on growth of stature, 136, 138

Limbs, the, 308-319
growth of, 309
index of segments of, 310
malformations of, 310
measurement of, 386

Limitations of mass, 40-42

Little's disease, 312, 408

Livi's charts, 110, 393

Lordosis, 303, 306

Lungs, the, 286-287


Macrocephaly, 243

Macrodontia, 337

Macroglossia, 338

Macroplastic type, 119

Macroscelia, 77, 88-90

Malformations, 331-350
distribution of, 344-350
of cranium, 195-6
of limbs, 310
origin of, 355
synoptic chart of, 332

Marie's disease, 154

Marriage, proper age for, 118
precocious, 117

Maternal diaries, 409

Mean averages, 391

Measurement of abdomen, 386
of cranium, 375-377
of face, 378-385
of limbs, 386-387
of stature, 362-366
of thorax, 385
of total spread of arms, 367

Medial man, theory of the, 65, 454-470

Mediterranean race, 79, 214, 264, 270, 323

Melanosis, 329

Mendel's laws, 50-59

Mesoprosopic face, 263

Metabolism, 40-42, 124

Method, importance of, in experimental sciences, 23-30

Methodology, statistical, 391-403

Microcephaly, 243

Microdontia, 337

Microphthalmia, 333

Mongolians the most brachyscelous race, 77

Monkey-like traits:
flat hand, 317
lack of certain lines in palm, 318

Monkey-like, long forearm, 310
thin lips, 336

Morphological adaptation of hand, 314
combinations, De Giovanni's, 65
evolution of cranium, 197

Morphology of body at various ages, 146-147
of the brain, 247
importance of, 338

Mortality, curve of general, 115
infant, in relation to vital index, 296
in Italy, 293

Morula, 44

Mother's love, psychic stimulus of, 142

Multicellular organisms, formation of, 42-46

Muscles of head and face, 277-278
of thorax, 285

Mutations, De Vries' theory of, 47

Myxedematous idiocy, 153


Nails, the, 317

Nanism, achondroplastic, 103-105

Neanderthal skull, 192

Neck, the, 282-283

Norm, facial, 378
frontal, 372
lateral, 372
occipital, 372
of profile, 379
vertical, 371

Nose, anomalies of, 335-336

Nutrition, influence of, on school children, 418


Oligodactylia, 316

Onycogryposis, 317

Orientation, line of, 265

Orthognathism, 268, 271

Ovum, human, 44


Palate, cleft, 272
ogival, 338, 352

Palms, lines of the, 318

Papillary lines, 319

Paralysis, infantile, 408

Parasites, social duty towards, 168

Parasitism, stigma of, 314, 317

Peasant, class stigma of, 271, 326, 346

Pedagogical method, need of reform in, 123, 144, 302

Pellagra, symptoms of, 161

Pelvis, 304-307
growth of, 306
rotation of, 307
sexual differences in, 305
skeleton of, 304

Personal error, 387-390, 457

Photogenic conditions, 136-138

Phototherapy, 136

Pia Barolo society, 131

Pigments, the, 320-331
during growth, 323

Pigmentation of hair, 326
of iris, 325
of skin, 325

Pigmy races, 109

Pithecanthropus, skull of, 192

Plagiocephalic cranium, 196, 372

Plagioprosopy, 271, 383

Platyopic profile, 271

Playthings, children's natural contempt for, 143

Pleasure, expression of, 279
necessary to human existence, 141

Polytrichia, 330

Polydactylism, 317

Ponderal index, 181
evolution of, 183, 184
method of computing, 181-183

Pregnancy, too frequent, 173

Profile, Egyptian, 270
Greek, 269
low types of, 271
norm of, 379
proopic, 271
Roman, 269

Progeneism, 267, 385

Prognathism, 267, 268, 385

Prophatnia, 385

Prosopometry, 379-385

Prosoposcopy, 378-379

Protoplasm, 38

Psychic stimuli, effect on health of children, 144
test, De Sanctis', 425

Puberty, change in pigments at, 323, 326
growth of jaw at, 274
of limbs at, 310
of nose at, 274
influence of climate on, 135-136
of cold on, 132
of direct sexual stimuli on, 131
of heat on, 135
of nutrition on, 130-132
of psychic stimuli on, 134, 141, 142
repose preceding, 115
of Russian girls, 135
of women of Lapland, 135
relation of growth of brain and face to, 230

Pulmonary capacity, 288-294


Quétélet's binomial curve, 398


Race, Eurafrican, 214, 270
Mediterranean, 79, 214, 264, 270, 323

Rachitic rosary, 302

Racial types in Europe, different characteristics of two principal, 353

Rewards and punishments, fallacy of, 123, 144-145, 432, 441, 443

Rhythm of brain growth, 232-236
of facial growth, 274
of stature, triennial, 113

Rickets, 97, 103, 164-166, 244, 268, 296, 302
fœtal, 103


School benches, deformations due to, 122, 302, 307, 349
records, 411

School-sanatorium, 160

Scientific philosophy, Morselli's, 21

Sea-shore, benefit to children, 136-137

Seriation, 396
importance of, 455

Sexual education, 356
function, dignity of the, 126
morality, 117, 126, 473-476

Sitting stature, 365-366
at different ages, 85

Skeleton, human, 71-72
articulations of, 107
of face, 188-189
of limbs, 308
of pelvis, 304

Skin, the, 320-344

Solitary confinement, 141

Sorrow, expression of, 278

Space, empirical relation to stature, 139

Specific gravity, of body, 178
of brain, 229

Spirometry, 288-294, 385

Stature, 106-171
of abnormals, 167
according to sex, 80 et seq.
of American children, 128
brachyscelous type of, 75
cycle of, 363
definition of, 70, 106, 362
in relation to dimensions of thorax, 295-297
effect of nutrition on, 124-132
of erect position on, 120
of heat on, 132-136
essential, 73
mean average, of European, 459
growth in, during first year, 112-113
index of, 84, 366, 367
involution of, 114
of Italians, mean average, 392

Stature, Livi's charts of, 110-111
macroscelous type of, 76
maximums and minimums, compared
with cranial circumference, 238-242
measurement of, 362
parabolic curve of, 112, 114
pathological variations of, 145-170
of rachitic children, 165
racial limits of, 108-111
in relation to sex, 111-112
rhythm of, 86
summary of, 170-171
terminology of, 110
total, at different ages, 85
triennial rhythm of growth of, 113-114
types of, 67 et seq.
abnormal, 91
according to age, 81
in art, 80
according to race, 77
according to social conditions, 79
summary of, 105-106
variations in, according to age, 112-118
according to seasons, 138
due to mechanical causes of adaptation, 119-124
night and morning, 119
transitory, 120

Sterility of dwarfs and giants, 104
due to precocious marriage, 117
due to work in rice-fields, 121

Stigmata of degeneration, 342
among beggars, 348
among orphans, 348

Stimulants poisons for children, 127

Studious children, denutrition of, 185
physical inferiority of, 25, 159, 185, 293

Sun-baths, 137

Superiority, social, 258
of women, moral, 259

Suprarenal capsule, 152, 154

Surprise, expression of, 279-280

Syndactylism, 317

Syphilis, abortion due to, 157
symptoms of, 157-158


Tasmanian, civilization of, 92-93
most macroscelous race, 77

Teacher of the future, the, 360
of abnormal pupils, 449
responsibility of the, 116

Teeth, anomalies of the, 336
first and second dentition, 336

Temperaments, De Giovanni's doctrine of, 12-14

Thermal gymnastics, 133-134

Thermic conditions of schools, 132-135

Thoracic index, 299
perimeter, 368

Thorax, the, 284-303
anatomical parts of, 284-286
anomalies of shape of, 301
descent of, 294
dimensions of, in relation to stature, 295, 297
growth of, 294
measurement of, 385
physiological importance of, 286
shape of, 299
triangulation of, 295

Thought, expression of, 280

Thymus gland, 152, 153

Thyroid gland, 152-153

Toe, opposable big, 311

Tongue, the, 338

Total spread of arms, 367

Tuberculosis, 291

Type of civilized man, 468


Uvula, double, 338


Vertebral column, normal curves of, 107-108

Visage, index of, 263
normal, 262
Roman, 263

Vital index, 296, 368

Voice, education of the, 287-288


Warmth, fallacy of demoralizing effect of, 133-134

Weight, the, 172-185, 368
of brain, 224
the, as exponent of health, 172
of new-born child, 172
of child, effect of too frequent pregnancy on, 173
of child, effect of mother's age on, 173
child's gain in, 174
and growth of separate organs, comparative, 180
child's loss in, significance of, 176
increase according to sex, 179

Women, fallacy of pretended cerebral inferiority of, 256

Wrinkles, anomalies of, 329
precocity of, 326, 329

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