@article{ref1,
title="The body-length-leg ratio in the general population and in mental hospital patients and its possible significance in suicide",
journal="Journal of mental science",
year="1936",
author="Strecker, H. Pullar",
volume="82",
number="336",
pages="38-42",
abstract="Psychiatrists will welcome Piney's recent preliminary communication (1) on the possible significance of certain physical characters. A series of measurements of about 500 bodies revealed that a very high number of suicides among the general population occurred in persons showing a body-length-leg ratio of over 50, i. e., the leg-length being more than 50% of the total body-length. Piney believes that persons of this type, among other abnormalities, have such mental characters as may lead to suicide. He raises the question whether body-length-leg ratios of over 50 are commoner among the inmates of mental hospitals than in the general population.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0368-315X",
doi="10.1192/bjp.82.336.38",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.82.336.38"
}