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The Development and Growth of the External Dimensions of the Human Body in the Fetal Period
19291842<p>Minneapolis: University of Minnnesota Press 1929. First edition.</p><p><strong>PIONEERING ATLAS OF HUMAN FETAL GROWTH. </strong></p><p>11 1/2 inches tall hardcover blue cloth binding gilt title to cover and spine institutional library bookplate to front paste-down no other library marks i-xxiii 367 pp 73 figures. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.</p><p><strong>RICHARD E. SCAMMON</strong>. In the first half of the 20th century the noted developmental anatomist and first Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School Richard E Scammon explored the geometric relationships of the frontal fontanelle in human infants Scammon and Adair 1930. Richard E. Scammon's article "The First Seriatim Study of Human Growth" provided one of the best-known visuals in the field of human biology. Scammon resurrected longitudinal height data of one child from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle converted them to metric and plotted these measurements as a function of age. The result was the first graph of one individual's growth curve from birth to 18 years of age. This image was subsequently reproduced in numerous texts on human growth and biology. Published in 1927 Scammon's article provides a snapshot of the state of growth research at the time and gives a literal picture of the future of human biology.</p><p><strong>LEROY ADELBERT CALKINS </strong>1894-1960 served as chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas from 1929 to 1959.</p> University of Minnnesota Press hardcover
