A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann.

  • Mann, John.
Date:
1865
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Credit: A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann. 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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    Sect. I.—The Facts of the Family History. I'ami^y ^^^'^ pkccd in the first rank the facts of the history family history, because until of late years they have been the most neglected; judged to be of minor importance, and down to the present time, we often meet with cases in which they are utterly ignored; even by men who are intelligent well-educated mem- bers of the medical profession; justly sustaining a high reputation in their respective circles. We account for this in part by remembering that the special illustrations of hereditary disease which present themselves in masses to the medical officers of a Life Assurance Company, occur to the ordinary medical practitioner only in individual instances, and at more distant intervals. In part, also, because the conclu- sions that are forced upon the mind by the study of family history, are often opposed to the wishes, affec- tions, and personal interests, of the student himself. 117 In the history already detailed of tlie British Analysis g^ipjj-e Mutual Life Assurance we have found that or sixty- -^•'1''*^'- sixtv-seven deaths occurred from Phthisis. The histories results of an analysis of the family history ot each individual case are these :—namely, that these deaths in relation to this question of hereditary descent might be divided into three classes, i. Those in whom this was more clearly established by the death of one or both parents from Phthisis, a. Those who might be