STRENGTH OF LIMB IN MAN AND WOMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 172, 23 July 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

STRENGTH OF LIMB IN MAN AND WOMAN.

' i According to the last report of the goings of the Anthropometric Laboratory London, the following interesting ''dajj were established concerning the relative strength and length of limbs in man and woman, viz.: In man, in 50.9 cases out of 100 the right arm was stronger that the left; in IG.I cases the 'arms were each of equal strength; finally Sn 32.7 cases out of 100 the left arm was the stronger. Thus it seems, contrary b the general understanding of this subject, that out of every 10 men there are more than three whose right arm ia not so strong as the left. The data show however that the proportion is better distributed in women—that is, out of , jjg only 46.9 possessed more strength in tb& right arm, and 24.5, or near onefourth, have more strength in the left. Dynamometric experiments have likejrise woved that in women the upper limbs possess the same strength much cftener than in men, since out of 100 . there were 25.6 that grave the same rejults in the two arms. As regards the lespective length of the limbs, it seems Jhat in most cases the right arm and the left leg are longer, the following proportions being noted at the laboratory in measuring 50 skeletons of adults, men and women: In 23 cases the left leg and the right arm were the longer; in three tases It was on the contrary, the right leg and the left arm, and in 4 cases only (he limbs of the right side were longer .ttan those of the left.