Note 2 — LANDMARKS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.
Reading edition
In several adult normal skeletons measured in the Hunterian Museum, the average diameters of the upper opening of the chest were—antero-posterior, about 2¼ inches; transverse, about 4½ inches. In the skeleton of O’Brien, the Irish giant, the antero-posterior diameter measures 4 inches, the transverse 6¼.