The Range and Significance of Variation in the Human Skeleton (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Range and Significance of Variation in the Human Skeleton In 1878 an essay on the Identification of the Human Skeleton had the good fortune to receive the Shattuck Prize offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is fitting that the same line of thought should be developed in the Shattuck Lecture. In that essay were discussed the recognition of the sex and age of the skeleton, the method of estimating the height and of making proper allowance for such parts as might be wanting. To some of these questions I brought methods of my own, but for many points I was forced to rely on the statements in books, too often quoted one from another. No part of medica1 literature is so perfunctory, artificial, and altogether unsatisfactory as medico-legal anatomy. During my professorship at the Harvard Medical School I have tried to use the material for original investigations, to find new criteria of sex and of age, to observe the degree of asymmetry between the two sides of the body, to learn how frequently anomalies occur which would vitiate the usual methods of procedure, and finally to study the question of the relation between the external shape of the body, its peculiar individuality, and the shape of the supporting framework, Though, as I hope to show, these researches have not been fruitless, yet some of these fields have yielded little. Attempts have exceeded performances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.