The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig, 29. — Outline of the chest of adult at level of sixth dorsal vertebra, showing howthe chest has broadened and flattened from the round, deep proportions of the three-year-old child. {Adapted from Braune and Bellamy.) should be kept through adult life (see Fig. 39); but hereagain it is necessary to add a word of caution against mis-taking the moderate contours of the perfectly erect position THE CHEST (^1 for an exaggerated lifting and puffing outward of the chest,—a position that may alw
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig, 29. — Outline of the chest of adult at level of sixth dorsal vertebra, showing howthe chest has broadened and flattened from the round, deep proportions of the three-year-old child. {Adapted from Braune and Bellamy.) should be kept through adult life (see Fig. 39); but hereagain it is necessary to add a word of caution against mis-taking the moderate contours of the perfectly erect position THE CHEST (^1 for an exaggerated lifting and puffing outward of the chest,—a position that may always be detected by the forced distentionof the ribs, and the acccompanying lordosis (excessive hollowin the back). Dr. Tyler remarks of the changed proportions at differentages:— The boy at twelve or thirteen, and the girl a year or two earlier,are farthest from the proportions of the infant. Adolescent and adulttend to return to the proportions of childhood. This is very clear inthe relative length of trunk and legs, in girth of chest, and even morein its form and roundness. The following c
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