On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors : being the prize essay in the class of military surgery, in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions / by Hector Gavin.

Date:
1843
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Credit: On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors : being the prize essay in the class of military surgery, in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions / by Hector Gavin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    rigour with which the conscription laws were fulfilled in France, between the years 1800 and 1810, many escaped by the simu- lation of infirmities, or their artificial excitement. This will be made quite clear by examining the following table :— In 1000 Rejections for all Causes, from In 1000 Rejections for all Causes, there 1824 till 1828, at the Recruiting Depot, were rejected, on an average, Dublin, taking the average from 3032 Rejections. For Idiocy .... 8 33 Deafness . 17 n 33 Deaf-dumbness . . 1 U Short-sight 58 33 Stammering . 9 3 33 Epilepsy . 21 1 „ Impaired Vision, and Diseases of the Eyes 121 63 >3 Pulmonic Affections . 169 21 3 33 Diseases of the Uri- nary Organs . . 14 33 Loss of Incisor Teeth 13 15 33 Deformity of Feet or Toes 291 2 3 Lind states, that of 5743 patients admitted into Haslar Hospital in two years, there were affected with Fevers Scurvy . Consumption Rheumatism 2174 1146 360 350! 1 If the French mean by pulmonic affections, congenital or acquired malformation of the thorax, there are forty-five such cases in the Dublin Tables, which would make the average 14 8: a difference, however, which is still inexplicable, except on the ground assigned. 2 The Dublin Tables include the loss of other teeth besides the incisors, and also diseases of the gums. 3 Deformity of feet or toes are included in the Dublin Tables,, under the general head of defective condition of the inferior extremities, etc.