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Title: The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bancroft, Jessie H. (Jessie Hubbell), 1867-1952
Subjects: Child care School hygiene
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s very readily demonstrated by placing the 1 Goldthwait, 51. 84 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN outer edge of the hand on the shoulder, with the fingerspointing toward the same point on the opposite shoulder,and toward the head, so as to show the relation of theshoulder to the ear. This is illustrated in Fig. 33. This test for a balanced posi-tion of the shouldersappears valid at allages, even during theperiod of the cylindri-cal or barrel-shapedchest, for the authorfound it true in twohundred cases of chil-dren ranging from sixmonths to seven yearsof age, and no excep-tions have been foundin many thousands ofcases of older chil-dren. Stated differ-ently, this ear testmeans that no normalshoulder blade canbe flat on the backif the shoulder tip isin front of the for-ward border of theear. That it is backof that border does not necessarily mean that the shoulderblades are in a perfect position and not in need of any specialhelp, but where the clothing, as of school children, conceals the
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Fig. S3. — How to make the ear test for correct positionof the round of the shoulder. THE SHOULDERS 8S position, one may be sure of a faulty position from the earlandmark. This ear test should not be confused with thevertical line test for the entire body, from which it is entirelydistinct: for a line showing the relation between the ear andthe shoulder tip is to the rear of the weight line, falhng from infront of the ear to the forward part of the foot. Forward shoulders, with thewing protrusion behind, occurin so large a number of chil-dren that it would seem be-yond question advisable toforestall this fault of postureby definite exercise of theposterior muscles that coun-teract it. This will be dis-cussed more at length withthe means of correcting pos-ture in general. The authorfeels, however, that the posi-tion of the shoulder blades isone of the most salient indi-cations that definite educationand training for erect postureare needed for every child, entirely irrespective of co

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