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Classes of diseases. | Individual diseases. | Three years. 1810 to 1812. | Three years. 1819 to 1821. | Eleven years. 1823 to 1833. | Total diseas. in 17 years. | Total Diseas. in each class. | |||
IV. Diseases of the fluids, &c. | Plethora | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Gout | 2 | 2 | |||||||
Dropsical affections, chiefly ascites and anasarca[1] | 17 | 33 | 102 | 152 | |||||
Cachexy and chronic debility | 41 | 57 | 98 | ||||||
Scorbutus | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Purpura | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Diabetes | [2]6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||
Erysipelas | 19 | 2 | 55 | 76 | 346 | ||||
V. External Scrofula. | External Scrofula, including rockets, enlarged glands, diseased joints, cutaneous ulcers. | 28 | 37 | 188 | 253 | 253 | |||
VI. Scirrhus and cancer. | Scirrhus and cancer.[3] | 6 | 12 | 24 | 42 | 42 | |||
VII. Diseases of the head and throat. | Amaurosis and blindness. | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Ophthalmia | 60 | 31 | 133 | 224 | 30-9 | ||||
Otitis and Otalgia | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||||
Epistaxis | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Parotitis (mumps) | 4 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
Bronchocele | 1 | 7 | 11 | ||||||
Cynanchetonasillaris pharyngea. | 8 | 4 | 50 | 62 | |||||
Ptyalism chronic | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Aphtha | 1 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
Odontalgia | 24 | 24 | |||||||
Deafness | 16 | 16 | |||||||
Aphonia | 2 | 2 | 386 |
- ↑ In column two, are included general dropsy or anasarca 26; ascites, 4; hydro thorax, 3. In column three, the distinction is only made during the last live years, during which the total cases are 54, viz. anasarca, 36; ascites, 18.
- ↑ No doubt the greater number of the cases included in column one, were not the proper diabetes, D. mellitus.
- ↑ In column two, the cases were the following:—cancer of the uterus, 1; mamma, 4; eye, 1; lip, 1; cardia, 1; pylorus, 4.