Classics in Obesity ly farther on, for the solution of the following problem of legal medicine: To determine the age of an individual ajier death, froin the aggregate of his physical qualities.In this sense, weight would be one of the elements which it would be necessary to connect with the distinguishing of individuals; and this physical character naturally takes a place near that of the stature.Researrches on the height of man, and on his development, may have another useful end, that of enlightening governments on many points; as, for example, as regards the fixing of the age of recruits.There is another element, the determination of which is equally important, and which, also, is but little known, namely, the strength.I do not flatter myself that I have filled up the voids which science presented on this subject, but I shall think myself happy if my researches may induce other persons to attempt it.CHAPTER I. OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEIGHT.I DO not think that, before Buffon, any inquiries had been made to determine the rate of human growth successively from birth to maturity; and even this celebrated naturalist cites only a single particular example; neither has he examined the modifying influences which age exerts on height.The only researches at all precise which science possesses, refer to the length of the child before birth, and to that of the fully developed man.*Chaussier, who invented the nzecometre, an insuument adapted to measure the length of children, thought that we might view as regular the increase in length of the child for six months before its birth; and he estimated this increase at two inches per month.In the Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, the length of fetus is estimated by the following numbers:-At birth, ....................
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