PART II.
MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY.
SKETCH OF THE MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY
OF THE
HUNDRED OF PENWITH,
COMPRISING THE
DISTRICT OF THE LANDSEND,
IN CORNWALL.
BY JOHN FORBES, M.D., F.R.S.
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THE great object of Medical Topography being
to trace the causes of diseases, with a view to their
prevention, the aim of the Medical Topographer
ought to be to detail all the circumstances, physical
and moral, which can in any way exert an influence
over the health of the inhabitants of the place which
he undertakes to describe; and to investigate the
nature of this influence, and the manner of its
operation, until it terminates in the production of
formal bodily disorder. A complete Treatise of
Medical Topography would, therefore, comprehend
a most varied and extensive range of information
respecting the locality treated of. The principal
heads under which the various subjects in such a
