The weather and health of London / Alexander Buchan.

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[1881]
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Credit: The weather and health of London / Alexander Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    relations observed between the curve for suicides (Fig. 19) and that for cephalitis is very striking. The maximum mortality for whooping-cough, Fig. 20, gout. Fig. 21, and phthisis, Fig. 22, occur in the same season as that for the nervous diseases. The maximum mortality from whooping-cough occurs in the spring months, and the curve suggests that this is more a disease of the nervous system than of the respiratory*organs, a view which, singularly enough, was maintained by the elder Dr. Begbie, one of the most distinguished of our Edinburgh physicians, upwards of thirty years ago. The relations of gout to diseases of the nervous Fig. 20. Jan. n 111 Feb. 1 1 1 March. XUL April. LJ 1 1 May. 1 1 1 June. 1 1 1 July. 1 1 1 1 Aug. 1 1 1 Sept. 1 1 1 Oct. 1 1 1 1 Nov. 1 1 1 Dec. 1 1 I! - .JIM 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 \n tttT 1 1 1 1 1 u Whooping Cough. Fig. 21. 40 Mean P I ' ;C 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 • l| 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 r y 40 J 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 V/ 111 1 1 1 1 I n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 c Gout. Fig. 22. 30p II HI Mil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 MIC 3ob II 11 1 1111 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 C Phthisis. system are too obvious to call for remark. Phthisis is one of the two most fatal scourges of our British climate, one out of every eight deaths which occur being caused by consumption. Its mortality- curve, Fig. 22, shows unmistakably its intimate relations to nervous diseases, thus affixing greater significance to its known complications with hereditary insanity, scrofula, and some other mental diseases. Keference has been made to the infiuence of the heat of summer on certain nervous diseases. That influence acts fatally, both indirectly through the bowels in the case of the young, and directly on the nervous centres. The curve for convulsions, Fig. 17, is