On the influence of age in the causation of skin-disease : as ascertained by the analysis of five thousand consecutive cases of skin-disease.

  • Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
Date:
[1873]
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Credit: On the influence of age in the causation of skin-disease : as ascertained by the analysis of five thousand consecutive cases of skin-disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Thk following Tables serve to show the effect of age in the causation of skin-disease, as ascertained by the analysis of five thousand consecutive cases taken from the carefully kept register of the Hospital. In each Table the range of life from birth to ninety years of age has been divided into eighteen equal periods of five years. - ' ® In the first Table, the five thousand patients of either sex are distributed, according to their age at thr time of their application, amongst these several periods. In the second Table the results given by the first are corrected and checked by sorting the cases in a some- what different manner, viz. by distributing the same patients amongst the same periods, but according to the age Huy had attained when their disease first Commenced, instead of according to their age at the time of their application. • - r. J The two Tables taken together afford a result which is compounded of the age at Which, ih each individual, the disease commenced, and at a later age a£ which in the same person, the same disease was '.known to be still existing. Thus, a more accurate view is presented of the effect of age in the causation of skin-disease than could be derived from either of the Tables separately. Of the five thousand cases, two thousand six hundred and eighty-six were males, and two thousand three hundred and fourteen were females. Of the five thousand cases; at~ the time of application at