Medical handbook of life assurance, for the use of medical and other officers of companies / by James Edward Pollock and James Chisholm.

  • Pollock, James Edward.
Date:
1889
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical handbook of life assurance, for the use of medical and other officers of companies / by James Edward Pollock and James Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    214/234
    2IO Medical Handbook OF Life Assurance. Causes, chief for extra premiums, 384. Carbolic acid test for albumen, 275. Cerebral hsemorrhage, 118. softening, 118. Chemicals, workers with, 75. Chest measurements, chapter X. Chest to be uncovered in examining, 41. SO- Charcot's disease, 117. Chorea, 313. Christison on deaths from phthisis, 196. Claims, 352 et seq. Clergy, best lives, 67. Climates, hot, 48. in bronchitis, 220. Classes for special rates, 69. Confinements, mortality in first and subsequent, 306. Contingent Assurances, 377- Consumption {see Phthisis). endowment risks in inherited, 372. Corpulence, 347, 350. Corrigan's pulse, 147, 162. D. Dangers of obesity, 324 et seq. Deductions from sum assured in lieu of extra, 401. true principle of, 402. inaccurate modes of calcu- lating, 404. tables of, 403, 407. and combined limited pre- miums, 405. in non-vaccination, 406. Degenerations of arteries and organs, 127, 331. Delicacy, general, 200 et seq. Diabetes, hereditary, 100. Diabetes, deaths from, 281 et seq. differs from glycosuria, 278 et seq. locality in, duration of, 283, 284. Digestive tract, 226. Double or quits, mode of rating, 401. Dress to be removed in examination, 41, SO- Drunkards, reclaimed, 133. Dusty occupations, 73. Dysentery, 237. Dyspepsia, 228. Dysuria, 243. E. Eczema, 125. Emaciation, progressive, 343. Embolism cause of apoplexy, 340. Emphysema, 212. rules for, 213. with asthma, 214. Endowment Assurance, nature of, 364 et seq. case in which it does not lessen risk to Company, 372. difference between and short term risks, 373. bearing of medical selection in, 370. premiums, analysis of, 368. Epilepsy, heredity of, 119. parents' transmission of, 120. intemperance in parents a cause, 114. mild form of, 122. not of hereditary origin, 316. Insurance rules for, 121,316, 317- Examiner, Medical, rules for, 5, 8. Examination of chest. Chapter X.