Observations on the comparative prevalence, mortality, and treatment of different diseases / illustrated by abstracts of cases.

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834
Date:
1813
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    a. ee TREATMENT OF DIFFERENT DISEASES. 39 are so severe, so sudden and helpless, that they the manner of accidents, and this is so true, that at St. Thomas’s Hospital, an exception is made with regard to such cases, they are allowed to be considered as accidents, and are immediately ad- mitted. Some cases of hemiplegia occur in full habits; some in spare and exhausted habits. ‘The indolent, most frequently o¢cur in private prac- tice, and among the upper ranks of life. The lat- ter occur more among the laborious classes, and among such of the rich as are addicted to exhaust- ing pleasures *. With regard to the two sexes, there appear to be certain diseases exclusive of those peculiar to each, which are more incident to the one than to total males in the hospital tables, is not quite two thirds; allowance being made for this, it will appear by inspection, that there is a considerable majority of males under the heads of intermittent fever, pul- monary complaints, bowel complaints, rheumatism, hemiplegia, other palsies and dropsy. ‘The only large head of disease in which there is a majority of females is cutaneous diseases. ‘The cause of the tioned in the first article of the last Volume of these * See Lecture of Muscular Motion, page 29, read before the Royal Society, 1788, by Sir Gilbert Blane, M.D. F.R.S,