Citation

Strecker HP. J. Ment. Sci. 1936; 82(336): 38-42.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1936, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.82.336.38

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Psychiatrists will welcome Piney's recent preliminary communication (1) on the possible significance of certain physical characters. A series of measurements of about 500 bodies revealed that a very high number of suicides among the general population occurred in persons showing a body-length-leg ratio of over 50, i. e., the leg-length being more than 50% of the total body-length. Piney believes that persons of this type, among other abnormalities, have such mental characters as may lead to suicide. He raises the question whether body-length-leg ratios of over 50 are commoner among the inmates of mental hospitals than in the general population.

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