ABSTRACT
It has been pointed out in earlier sections that somatological constitutions of particular sorts have long been known by clinicians to be more frequently subject to certain diseases than others. The tuberculous person is often (but not always) of asthenic habitus; the asthenic is more often tuberculous than the pyknic. Cerebral hemorrhage occurs often (but not always) in persons of the pyknic habit of body ; and the pyknic is (perhaps) more often apoplectic than the asthenic. The few relationships of this sort between bodily habitus and disease, while founded upon essentially stochastic reasoning, have not, generally speaking, been subjected to really thorough and penetrating statistical analysis. In particular, there has been very little done, so far as I am aware, in the way of an attempt to find whether persons of a particular habitus of body, say asthenics, or pyknics, or euplastics, or dysplastics, 69enjoy generally better or worse health than those of other bodily forms.
