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Show GEOWTH OF MAN.' The most rapid growth . takes place immediately after birth ; the growth of an infant during the first year of its existence being about eight inches. The ratio of increase gradually decreases de-creases until the age of three years, at which time the size attained in length., is half that 'it is to become whem full grown. , After five years the succeeding succeed-ing increase la very regular till the sixteenth six-teenth year, being at the rate for the average man of two inches for each year. Beyond sixteen, the growth is feeble,being,in the following two years, about six-tenths, of an inch a year; while from eighteen to twenty the in-crea?e in-crea?e in height is seldom over nn inch. At the age of twenty-five the growth ceases, save in a few exceptional exception-al cases. |
