Increase of Stature at Night.
The daily variation in human stature ha 3 been made a matter of practical study by Dr. Merkel, the result being, as he fiuds, that the height of an individual after a night's rest, measured before rising from the bed, is two inches greater than it is in the evening, measured standing ; that is, there is gradual diminution in heiglit, caused by the yielding of the plantar arches and of the intervertebral discs, and a sudden diminution when the incividual rises, this occurring at the articulations of the lower extremities. The sinking at the ankle is one-third of an inch, onetwelfth to one-eighth of an inch at the knee, and two-fifths of an inch at the hip—the shortening at the knee being due, probably, to the elasticity of the cartilages, which would easily involve the extent of variation named. —Exchange.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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