+----------+----------------+----------------+ |Pulse[132]|Respiration[133]| emperature[134]| +----------+----------------+----------------+ | _Males_ | | | | (6) | (6) | (6) | | 63.2 | 18.2 | 98.05 | | (52-68) | (16-21) | (97.8-98.4) | +----------+----------------+----------------+ The details of these six records were: +------------+-------------+-------+-------------+-------------+ | Age (year) | Time of day | Pulse | Respiration | Temperature | | | (p. m.) | | | | +------------+-------------+-------+-------------+-------------+ | 40 | 4.40 | 60 | 21 | 98.1 | | 33 | 2 | 66 | 18 | 97.8 | | 19 | 2.30 | 68 | 18 | 98.2 | | 45 | 1.25 | 68 | 18 | 98.4 | | 40 | 1.30 | 64 | (14) | 97.8 | +------------+-------------+-------+-------------+-------------+ In connection with the pressure tests in the two hands, some interesting comparisons are possible between the Eskimo here dealt with and the old white Americans. As all the tests were made with the same instrument and method the results inspire confidence. It is in details of this nature that the anthropologist finds again and again the most striking proofs of the basal unity of the living races and their necessarily common origin somewhere in the past. PRESSURE FORCE IN THE HANDS IN THE WESTERN ESKIMO AND OLD WHITE AMERICANS -------------------------------------+----------------+--------------- | Western Eskimo | Old Americans +-------+--------+-------+------- | Male | Female | Male | Female -------------------------------------+-------+--------+-------+------- Pressure: | _Kg._ _Kg._ | _Kg._ _Kg._ Right hand | 34.36 20.13 | 41.8 23.3 Left hand | 28.75 16.81 | 36.1 19.4 Percentage relation of left to right |_83.7_ _83.5_ |_86.4_ _83.6_ Percentage relation of female to male| | (M = 100) | | Right hand | _55.8_ | _55.5_ Left hand | _53.7_ | _53.7_ -------------------------------------+----------------+--------------- FOOTNOTES: [132] Sitting, at rest, no signs of any health disorder. [133] Sitting, at rest. [134] Sitting, at rest, sub lingua. [135] Subjects where all three determinations were not possible and the most suspicious ones (abnormally above or below the mean) eliminated. SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIVING WESTERN ESKIMO[136]