Report on the Nomenclature and Statistical Classification of Diseases for Statistical Returns

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1856 - 37 стор.
 

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Сторінка 8 - Niebuhr has shown, have influenced not only the fate of cities, such as Athens and Florence, but of empires ; they decimate armies, disable fleets ; they take the lives of criminals that justice has not condemned; they redouble the dangers of crowded hospitals ; they infest the habitations of the poor, and strike the artisan in his strength down from comfort into helpless poverty ; they carry away the infant from the mother's breast, and the old man at the end of life ; but their direst eruptions...
Сторінка 7 - The causes of death were tabulated in the early Bills of Mortality ( Tables mortuaires) alphabetically ; and this course has the advantage of not raising any of those nice questions in which it is vain to expect physicians and statists to agree unanimously. But statistics is eminently a science of classification ; and it is evident, on glancing at the subject cursorily, that any classification that brings together in groups diseases that have considerable affinity, or that are liable to be confounded...
Сторінка 8 - Classification is a method of generalization. Several classifications may, therefore, be used with advantage; and the physician, the pathologist, or the jurist, each from his own point of view, may legitimately classify the diseases and the causes of death in the way that he thinks best adapted to facilitate his inquiries, and to yield general results. The medical practitioner may found his main divisions of diseases on their treatment as medical or surgical; the pathologist, on the nature of the...
Сторінка 9 - DIBKASES :— -Alonurgnnic!. (Alone, without others; organ.) Sporadic diseases, in which the functions of particular organs or systems are disturbed or obliterated, with or without inflammation; sometimes hereditary.
Сторінка 14 - Thanatici. (Sana,™, violent deaths.) Diseases which are the evident and direct results of physical or chemical forces, acting either by the will of the sufferer, of other persons, or accidentally.
Сторінка 14 - Zymotici. ($J/«), leaven.) Diseases that are either epidemic, endemic, or contagious ; induced by some specific body, or by the want or by the bad quality of food.
Сторінка 12 - Pneumonia - - - 3 weeks, is understood to mean that symptoms of the cough appeared 16 weeks, of the paralysis 4 weeks, of the pneumonia 3 weeks before death. Confusion has been produced in some returns by inattention to this point. {Childbirth - - 4 days (from commencement of labour to death must be invariably understood).
Сторінка 12 - ... days' duration ; in weeks or years, for diseases of still longer duration. Month is an uncertain measure of time ; when used in the returns, it will be deemed the twelfth part of a year. " (4.) State, in fatal cases of SMALLPOX, whether VACCINATION had been performed WITH EFFECT, and WHEN ; and in smallpox, measles, scarlatina, typhus, rheumatism, mania, delirium tremens, apoplexy, and the like diseases, whether it be the second, third, &c. attack, whenever the patient has sustained more attacks...
Сторінка 14 - Monorganici. (JKO'VO?, alone, without others; ofyann, organ.) Sporadic diseases, in which the functions of particular organs or systems are disturbed or obliterated, with or without inflammation ; sometimes hereditary. (D.) IV. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES : — Metamorphici. ( change of form.) Special diseases, the incidental result of the formative, reproductive, and nutritive processes.
Сторінка 11 - The space assigned for the entry in the Register Book will contain about ten words. " (2.) Write the causes of death, where there are more than one, under each other, in the order of their appearance, and not in the presumed order of their importance. "(3.) The duration of primary and secondary diseases in these returns will always be considered to imply the time intervening between the first appearance of well-marked characteristic symptoms and death. Smallpox, scarlatina, erysipelas, typhus, and...

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