The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . earance of the very little child with short 1 Woods-Hutchinson, 68, 69, 70; Evans, 36; Whitman, 143. 2 Hutchinson, Ibid.; Dwight in Piersol, 157; Tyler, 140. Hutchinson, 69. See Appendix, Note 7. 66 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN 4 neck (sometimes called the barrel-shaped chest) to the compara-tively thin, flat-chested outlines of the boy and girl in the upper primary and the grammar grades(Figs. 28-29). The characteris-tics of chest and neck of a veryyoung child help to place theage of the q


The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . earance of the very little child with short 1 Woods-Hutchinson, 68, 69, 70; Evans, 36; Whitman, 143. 2 Hutchinson, Ibid.; Dwight in Piersol, 157; Tyler, 140. Hutchinson, 69. See Appendix, Note 7. 66 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN 4 neck (sometimes called the barrel-shaped chest) to the compara-tively thin, flat-chested outlines of the boy and girl in the upper primary and the grammar grades(Figs. 28-29). The characteris-tics of chest and neck of a veryyoung child help to place theage of the quaint little figureof the artist Strozzis daughterin Titians portrait in PlateXVIIL Fig. 28.—Outline of the chest of a child Xhe age of greatest flat-three years old, level of seventh dorsal vertebra. Note the great depth in pro- chestcdnCSS (eleven tO fifteen)portion to breadth. (After Dwight.) is followed in the later highschool years by one in which the chest appears sHghtlyhigher, — an appearance that probably comes from a greaterprotrusion of the sternum. This outward slope of the sternum.


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