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MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY
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.
X. Diseases of the female genital organs. Organic disease of the uterus 10 10
Abortion 5 7 12
Prolapsus uteri 8 25 33
Leucorrhœa 2 4 57 63
Menorrhagia 3 21 72 96
Amenorrhœa and chlorisis 203 21 174 398
Dysmenorrhœa 13 13 625
XI. Diseases of the urinary organs Nephralgia, nephritisn, & other diseases of the kidney 6 13 19
Dysuria, ischuria, and other diseases of the bladder 1 54 55
Hæmaturia 3 6 9
Diseases of the bladder and kidney 20 20
Calculus and gravel 3 3 106
XII. Diseases of the skin chronic Chronic eruptions 107 51 370 528 528
XII. Surgical diseases. External local inflammations, phlegmon, furunculus, anthrax, parnychia 11 300 311
Lues venerea 51 51
Hernia 8 28 36
Tumor mammæ 17 42 59
Other surgical cases 326 381 707 1181
XIV. Anomalous cases. 24 23 7 54 54

Note.—It will be observed that the arrangement of diseases in this table, is on an entirely different principle from that stated in the observations which precede it. It is not pretended that the plan here adopted is particularly good, but it seems to have some advantages over the simply alphabetical arrangement.