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SECT. I. 0F THE DISEASES OF THE INHABITANTS GENERALLY.
ART. I.—TABULAR VIEWS OF DISEASES.
Table A.—General abstract of the Medical Reports of the Penzance Dispensary, during a period of seventeen years.
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. | |||
I. Diseases of the brain and nervous system. | Apoplexy | 6 | 4 | 2 | 94 | ||||
Paralysis | 9 | 73 | |||||||
Convulsions | [1]9 | 18 | 27 | ||||||
Epilepsy | 21 | 16 | 57 | 94 | |||||
Hydrocephalus | 3 | 8 | 7 | 18 | |||||
Hysteria | 23 | 2 | 95 | 120 | |||||
Mania | 4 | 9 | 13 | ||||||
Cephalgia | 17 | 16 | 99 | 132 | |||||
Obstipatio lateralis (Sauv.) | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Spasm | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Tetanus | 1 | [2]1 | 2 | ||||||
Choera | 5 | 6 | 11 | ||||||
Nyctalopia | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Delirium tremens | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Vertigo | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
Delirium and phrenitis | 1 | 11 | 12 | ||||||
Hypochondriasis | 16 | 16 | |||||||
Other Diseases of the brain | 7 | 7 | |||||||
Determination of blood to the head | 34 | 34 | |||||||
Diseases of the spine to the medulla | 12 | 34 | 46 | ||||||
638 | |||||||||
II. Febrile diseases. A. General fevers. |
Continued fever—typhus—contagious | 53 | 126 | 203 | 382 | ||||
Intermittent fever. | [3]2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Infantile remitting fever | 11 | 15 | 26 | ||||||
Hectic | 10 | 10 | |||||||
B. Eruptive fevers. | Small-pox | 6 | 3 | 39 | 48 | ||||
Chicken-pox | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 | |||||
Scarlatina | 18 | 1 | 29 | 48 | |||||
Measles | 24 | 13 | 17 | 54 | |||||
Urticaria | 10 | 9 | 19 | ||||||
605 | |||||||||
III. Rheumatic and neuralgic diseases. | Rheumatism, acute & chronic | 69 | 29 | 341 | 439 | ||||
Sciatica | 18 | 51 | |||||||
Lumbago | 2 | 7 | |||||||
Neuralgia and nervous pains | 8 | 16 | |||||||
490 |