Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species

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Author

Black, William, 1749-1829

Title

A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species, at All Ages And of the Diseases and Casualties by Which They Are Destroyed or Annoyed. Illustrated With Charts and Tables

Credits

Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Mortality -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59846

Release Date

July 2, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE MORTALITY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, &c. &c.
2. 2.DEDICATION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — — The Solar System — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — — — — — — — — — — — A GENERAL CHART, with different Tables, Exhibiting the Gradations of Mortality in City and Country. — — — — — — A CHART of all the Fatal Diseases and Casualties in London, during 75 Years; Beginning from 1701, and ending with 1776. — A MEDICAL CATALOGUE of all the principal Diseases and Casualties by which the Human Species are destroyed or annoyed. — — — — Intermittent Fevers , — Remittent Fevers : — Nervous and Putrid Fevers. — Inflammatory Fevers , — Small Pox , — Measles. — Scarlet fever. — Plague. — Sweating Sickness , — Of the predisposing and occasional Causes of fevers, — Of Febrile Prognosticks.
6. 6.The phlogistick group of febrile diseases — Inflammation of the Brain. — Angina : — Inflammation of the Lungs and Organs of Respiration , — Inflammation of the Liver , — Inflammation of the stomach , — Erysipelas , — Rheumatism, acute and chronic. — Gout , — Of internal suppuration
7. 7.Diseases of the Lungs and Organs of Respiration , — Pulmonary Hemorrhage , — Pulmonary Phthisis. — Species of Consumption — Asthma. — Dyspnœa and Coughs — Catarrh , — Hooping Cough , — Croup ,
8. 8.A Miscellaneous cluster of diseases — Headach. — Night Mare , — Apoplexy. — Of lethargy, coma, carus, cataphora. — Of vertigo, — Palsy. — Epilepsy. — Tetanus , — Spasms and cramps — St. Vitus’s Dance. — Catalepsis, and extasis. — Fainting and asphyxy : — Palpitation of the Heart. — Polypi of the Heart, internal Aneurism, and Ossification. — Hypochondriasm , — Insanity ,
9. 9.Diseases of the External Senses ; — Vision. — Hearing , — Smelling — Taste. — Voice and Speech. — Sterility of the sexes: — Morbid irritability of the genitals , —
10. 10.Diseases of the Stomach and Intestinal Tube , — Diseases of the Stomach — Cholera Morbus — Dysentery , — Diarrhœa , — Colick. — Gall-Stones , — Jaundice , — Worms. — Hemorrhoides , — Vomiting of Blood , — — Hydrophobia. —
11. 11.Diseases of the Urinary Organs. — Inflammation and Calculi of the Kidneys , — Incontinence of Urine, and also Diabetes. — Ulcers in the Kidneys and Bladder, and Bloody Urine.
12. 12.Dropsy . — Dropsy in the Brain — Dropsy of the Thorax , — Abdominal Dropsy , — Dropsy of the Cellular Membrane , — Dropsy of the Scrotum , — The predisposing and occasional causes of Dropsies, — Tympany. — Excess of Fat ,
13. 13.Female Diseases , — — Morbid and Irregular Menstruation , — Uterine Relaxation , — Final Cessation of Menstruation — Hystericks , — Childbed — — Conception and Pregnancy. — Of Parturition natural , laborious , preternatural , complex , or anomalous . — — Abortion and Miscarriage; Uterine Hemorrhage, or Flooding. — Convulsions — Irregularity of the Lochia , — Inflammation of the Womb — Puerperal Fever , — After-Pains; Weed, Milk-Fever; Inflammation of the Breasts ,
14. 14.Infant diseases — The general causes of Infant Diseases — Convulsions, Inward Spasms, and Tetanus. — Dentition. — Rickets. — Thrush. —
15. 15.A Miscellaneous group of diseases — Venereal Disease. — Scurvy. — Scrofula , — Leprosy.
16. 16.TO THE READER. — Executed.
17. 17.Of the Institution of the London Bills of Births, Mortality, and Diseases; their Defects, besides those already pointed out; important and easy Improvements recommended.
18. 18.ERRATA.

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