Nouvelles expériences sur la réunion des fibres nerveuses sensibles avec les fibres motrices / par M. G. Gluge, et M. A. Thiernesse.

  • Gluge, Gottlieb, 1812-1898.
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[©1863?]
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Credit: Nouvelles expériences sur la réunion des fibres nerveuses sensibles avec les fibres motrices / par M. G. Gluge, et M. A. Thiernesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C(.)MMENTA1{Y UPüN tiTATEMENT ÜK THE througliout tho whole of the yciir. At the end of eacli rnontli the iüims, diily filk'd in, werc transinittcd by Dej)iity Inspectors- (lencial ol llosj)itals to the Olliee o[ tlie Principal Insj^ector- Cteneial, and by liis permission they were forwarded to me for ariiUigement aiul tabulation. 1 he accomj)anying Table présents the results thus arrived at. Fn the monthly Forrns the dates of the New and Full Moon were purposely omitted, in order that Medical Olhcers might not be biassed in their observations by the Phases of the Moon being prominently noted. lu tabulating the results of observations from the monthlv y Forrns I first noted the dates of New and Full Moon. I con- sidered the so-called ‘‘Springs i’ (the periods of supposed “ Lunar Influence”) to extend from two days before to two days after the days of the New and Full Moon inclusive:— inaking jive days at each Lunar Period, or ten days in the month, so that the two Lunar Periods together occupy one-third of the entire month:—Icaving out of considération the extra day in the inonths that hav^ 31 days, Thus we hâve ten dcn^s in the month, during which the Lunar Influence (if any) may be supposed to exist, against twenty days, when it may be supposed to be absent :—and thei’efore if there be any truth in the opinion that Periodic Fevers commence and recur more frequently at the New and Full Moon than at the other periods of the month, it is obvious that more than one-third of the total monthly Par- oxysms should occur in the ten days of the “ Springs ” : and further, if this opinion had so broad a foundati'm in facts as its general pi’evalence would lead us to expect, then the Paroxysms recorded in the ten days of the Springs should rery notahly cxceed one-third of the total monthly Paroxysms. Now, on examining this table, it will be seen that in each month the number of Paroxysms occurring at the “ Springs ” is sino'ulai’lv near one-third of the total monthly Paroxysms : nnd when ail the monthly totals for the year are added together, it is seen that, out of 56,175 Paroxysms, there werc 18,077 at the