CLINICAL CALORIMETRY

Abstract

This was the cadaver of a child 21 months old, weighed and measured about two hours after death.The subject was small for her age and had suffered from rachitis, the epiphyses at the wrists were large and the thorax was pigeon-breasted, being narrow and very deep anteroposteriorly.The child had pertussis and developed a fatal pneumonia.Fabian R. S., aged 12 years, 10 months, an unusually well formed boy with no signs of puberty as yet.He was muscular and rather short for his age.He served as the subject for one of the calorimeter experiments described in