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.

    57/234
    102. If one parent have had rheumatic fever, or gout severely, the proposer being in perfect health, the heredity may perhaps be overlooked. 103. But if both parents, or grandparents, have had gout or rheumatism with heart disease, and pro- poser has had even a slight form of either disease, the life should be declined, or at least a large addition made to the premium. 104. A child of rheumatic or gouty parents, who has himself bronchitis habitually or frequently, or emphysema—or eczema—should not be accepted, though there are cases which, if habits be perfectly temperate, might be accepted with an addition. ASTHMA. 105. Salter found that asthma was hereditary in 14 cases of 35 observed by him, and in seven it was paternal and direct. The most frequent period of development in such cases was in youth—up to 20 years of age—next in old age, and least in adult age. At 40, however, he considered that the heredity was nearly over. 106. Trousseau considered that eczema, rheuma- tism, and gout, were affections which asthma can replace, and which can replace asthma. They are, in fact, different expressions of the same diathesis. 107. la our estimate of the chances of hereditary transmission, we may accept an individual with an asthmatic parent at ordinary rate if he has had none of these affections, has a well-shaped (not emphy- sematous) chest, and is between 30 and 40.