On the medical selection of lives for assurance / by William Brinton.

  • Brinton, William, 1823-1867.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On the medical selection of lives for assurance / by William Brinton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ viii ] positions could be sustained or illustrated. My purpose obliged me to state all the rules I could suggest in such a short and simple form as would allow them to be easily remembered. And lastly, though feeling bound to utter all I knew, I was naturally anxious to avoid dogmatizing on a subject, in which our calculations rest on what is at present but an imperfect basis. But though my remarks scarcely exceed the value of suggestions, I venture to hope that they are not without traces of more care than the form in which I have thought it advisable to put them together might seem to imply. At any rate I trust that, as the summary of a large expe- rience, communicated without much reserve, they may ful- fil my chief object: namely, that of furnishing some prac- tical hints, which may assist those members of the pro- fession who are new to such duties, in the medical selection of Lives for Assurance. William Bkinton. 20, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, March 8th, 1856.