The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward, 1829-1892.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are by no means uncommon, while minor physi- cal defects, many of them denoting no trifling constitutional ailments, are deplorably frequent. The pulse, that faithful index of the heart, tells of a want of power in the great propelling organ. The most trivial exertion, no less than the slightest excitement, renders the variations in its beat unnatural and rapid. The irregu- larity of the circulation is further evinced by the coldness of the extremities, the attacks of % vertigo, and the prominent and tortuous veins. The blanched lips and the colourless cheeks plainly indicate the impoverished state of the blood; while attacks of neuralgia, a quiveringly protruded tongue and dilated pupil, denote the absence of that well-balanced tension of the nervous system on which the easy and har- monious working of the frame so largely depends. In others, again, the teeth are no sooner developed than they begin to decay, enlarged glands protrude from the neck, the skin looks dry and parched, and the hair scanty and withered. Such is a faithful description of the great majority of the patients who solicit