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
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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.

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    Heredity of predisposition to certain diseases, 85. intensified by repetition, 86. through mother, 87, 95. modes of in syphilis, 88. phthisis, 89, 94, 197. insanity, 90, of stoutness, 328. forms of disease, 93. by both parents, 84, 94, 95. ot cancer, 98. of gout, rheumatism, 99. of diabetes, 100. ofheart disease, loi. of asthma, 105, 108. of angina, 109. of albuminuria, 110. of gravel, liver disease, no. of syphilis, 88, in. of intemperance, 112. of nervous diseases, 116. of epilepsy, 119, 122. of suicidal tendency, 123. of insanity, 124. of skin disease, 125. of disease after middle age, 4c8. Hernia, 6. History, family, 44, 45. past, of proposer, 47. Hepatic colic, 234. Hsematuria, 241. Ifsematemesis, 233, 235. Hemorrhoids, 239. Haemoglobinuria, 241. Htemoptysis, five kinds of, 174—179. description of by proposer, 174. from strain, 175, 183. from phthisis, 176, 180, 181. from cardiac disease, two kinds, 184, 185, 186. from cardiac disease, insu- rance value for, 186. Hjemoptysis, from cardiac disease, a bleeding from lung, 187. • from ha;mophyllia, 188. in females, 188. from aneurism, 189, 190. single, in early life, value of, 191. Hutchinson's tables of vital capacity, Chapter X. normal weights, 347. data for, 349. Hydatids, 234. Hydrocele, 297. Hysteria, 319. I. Ideal of first-class life, 4, 8. Insanity, 124. insurance rules for, 124. Infantile paralysis, 117. Intemperance, heredity of, 112. effects of, 127. evidence of fiiends unreli- able, 129. effects of on surgical in- juries, 132. influence of, on mortality. Appendix II. Intemperates, three classes of, 131. (,see Alcohol). Interview with proposer, 32, 33, 43. J. Jaundice, 236. Joint life assurances, 378. Johnson, Dr. Charles {see Albumi- nuria), K. Kidney, large white, 257. contracted granular, 258. amyloid or lardaceous, 259. (see Albuminmia).