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...introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial capacity.* Present average is 1,450 cubic centimetres; but a person may have an interior head size several hundred cc. above or below that figure and still not be abnormal...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
...skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured at 2,200 cc...
...back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps, plates, amulets, skeletons. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that among this material had been found the largest skull ever recorded on the Western Hemisphere. The cranial capacity was 2,005 cubic centimetres. Average for modern man is 1,450 cc. World record is still held by the great Russian Novelist, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), with 2,030 cc...