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THE VALUE OF SURFACE AREA PROPORTIONS AS AN ANTHROPOMETRIC METHOD OF DIFFERENTIATION

SAMUEL GORDON BERKOW, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;48(2):234-248.

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Reproduction, metabolism and growth are not wholly independent activities of the body. Throughout life they exert a varying influence on one another.¹ The relation is not always apparent; yet conception, the supreme moment of sexual activity, is the most potent of the stimuli of growth. It initiates an orderly extension and division of the mass which are not ended even at maturity, for in the phenomenon of repair they continue, with diminishing force,² throughout life.

The relation between the generative and vegetative functions is not direct. On the strongest evidence, the mediacy of endocrine glands is assumed. At puberty, entrance of a sex hormone secretion into the body economy is accompanied by rapid growth, both general and sex specific, and by changes in the configuration of the body.³ However, according to Nicola Pende,⁴ pure, dominant, constitutional insufficiency of the sex glands is seldom found. More frequently . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.

From the Gynecological Service, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York; Endocrine and Sterility Clinics.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Nov. 5, 1930.

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