An Experimental Inquiry Into the Chest Movements of the Indian Female

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Description: 

Dr. Mays investigated the chest movements of 82 Indian girls in the Lincoln Institution. Abdominal respiration is the original type; costal in civilized females developed because of constricting wearing apparel. Read before the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, April 6, 1887.

People: 
Chippewa, Mohawk
Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Anatomy, Anthropology, Diseases, Lab Procedures, Physiology
Original Date: 
1887
Creator: 
Mays, T.J.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item is in the Public Domain
Source: 
Mem Amer Mus Nat Hist; Mays, TJ. An experimental inquiry into the chest movements of the Indian female. Therapeut Gaz 1887;11:297-9.
Identifier: 
9900228
Subject: 
Biometry, Respiration, Respiratory Airflow, Tuberculosis
Type: 
Monograph