The Range And Significance of Variation in the Human Skeleton
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She had been a factory hand. The femur is an uncommonly powerful bone for a woman, but the small head, as well as its outline, suggests the sex. The bones of the upper extremity are evidently female. The slight development of the shoulders in women is therefore a recognizable feature in the bones. Contrast the bones of this large woman with those of a slight young man, of whom more later. The Age, The diagnosis of the age of bones (children not being considered) resolves itself into the study o...f processes oc- curring at three periods : first, that of late adolescence and early maturity ; second, that of mature and middle life ; and third, that of advanced age. For the first period our guides are chiefly the union of the epiphyses, and that having occurred, the condition ot the line of junction.* I have not had the opportunity of making extensive observations at this age, but it is remarkable that so far as they go they all point one way, namely, to the earlier union of distinct parts than ac- cords with the general teaching, and to the speedy disap- pearance of the epiphysial lines.
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