A GUIDE TO THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND
MEASUREMENT OF THE HUMAN BODY:

CONTAINING A SYSTEMATIC TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS,

AN ANTHROPOMETRICAL CHART OR REGISTER, AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR
MAKING MEASUREMENTS ON A UNIFORM PLAN.

ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS DIAGRAMS, CHARTS, AND
STATISTICAL TABLES.

BY CHARLES ROBERTS, F.R.C.S.

LATE ASSISTANT SURGEON, VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN;
AUTHOR OF THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY,'
'THE PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OF FACTORY CHILDREN.'

'THE indispensable part of the experimental observation of physical facts is the measurement of quantities. Galileo knew that all physical objects are extended, and consequently, by their nature and essence, measurable, though they may not always be measurable by the methods and instruments we possess ;—that all pbysical phenomena take place in periods susceptible of measure—that physical phenomena must be reducible to movements, some perceptible, others imperceptible, by our senses. As regards all these phenomena, he held that the right method was to measure all that was measurable, and to endeavour to render measurable all that was not already directly so. All who have proceeded à priori, from Aristotle to Descartes downwards, have arrived at results the falsity of which suffices to condemn their method.'

Galilée, les Droits de la Science et la Méthode des Sciences

Physiques. Par Th. Henri Martin. (Paris, 1868.)