The medical examination for life insurance and its associated clinical methods : with chapters on the insurance of substandard lives and accident insurance . Fig ; Normal chest. Fig. 2. Pigeon-breast Fig. 3. 4. Emphysema. {Gee; modi;:. 264 THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR LIFE INSURANCE. Importanceprognosis. Unilateral retrac-tion. Scars. Aneurysmalpulsation. victim of tuberculosis. As in the case of the barrel chest, theform merely suggests the presence of a morbid condition and theneed of an especially critical examination. As regards the rachitic chest, the trans
The medical examination for life insurance and its associated clinical methods : with chapters on the insurance of substandard lives and accident insurance . Fig ; Normal chest. Fig. 2. Pigeon-breast Fig. 3. 4. Emphysema. {Gee; modi;:. 264 THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR LIFE INSURANCE. Importanceprognosis. Unilateral retrac-tion. Scars. Aneurysmalpulsation. victim of tuberculosis. As in the case of the barrel chest, theform merely suggests the presence of a morbid condition and theneed of an especially critical examination. As regards the rachitic chest, the transversely constricted chest,pigeon-breast, etc., it need only be said that they probably allrepresent a failure in the early nutrition of the individual, com-bined with some chronic obstruction to free breathing. Thetransversely constricted chest comes under the same generaldescription, and is seen in association with adenoid disease orother forms of nasal obstruction, even though the general nutri-tion of the child be but little affected. Trichterbrust.—This condition maybe congenital or ac-quired, and is characterized by a funnel-shaped depression of thelower and median aspect of the chest. It is quite possible for a person to enjoy reasonably g
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