A kind friend has furnished me with a tabular state­ment in regard to weight as proportioned to stature, which may be interesting and useful to corpulent readers

	STATURE.	WEIGHT.
5 feet 1 should be 8 stone 8 or 120 lbs.
5 "	2	"	9	0  " 126 "
5 "	3	"	9	7  " 133 "
5 "	4	"	9	10 " 136 "
5 "	5	"	10	2  " 142 "
5 "	6	"	10	5  " 145
5 "	7	"	10	8  " 148 "
5 "	9	"	11	8  " 162 "
5 "	10	"	12	1  " 169 "
5 "	11	"	12	6  " 174 "
6 "	0	"	12	10 " 178 "

This tabular statement, taken from a mean average of 2,648 healthy men, was formed and arranged for an Insurance Company by the late Dr. John Hutchinson. It answered as a pretty good standard, and insurances were regulated upon it. His calculations were made upon the volume of air passing in and out of the lungs, and this was his guide as to how far the various organs of the body were in health, and the lungs in particular. It may be viewed as some sort of probable rule, yet only as an average,—some in health weighing more by many pounds than others. It must not be looked upon as infallible, but only as a sort of general, reasonable, guide to Nature’s great and mighty work.

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