FOOTNOTE:
[178] This material was published in the American Medical Journal, Vol. 77, No. 20, Nov. 12, 1921, by Dr. William E. Carter, Dept. Pediatrics, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, Calif.
THE NUTRITIONAL INDEX—THE “PELIDISI”
Pirquet believes that the sitting height is a basis for the more accurate estimation of the nutritional state than is the standing height. It was demonstrated that the cube of the sitting height in centimeters is approximately ten times the weight in grams of the normal person. With this formula in mind, it becomes easy to compute the nutritional state in percentages, when the sitting height and the weight are known. The formula would read:
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