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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		$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$	6	4	2	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$	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.	$\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\\\\\ \end{matrix}}\right.$	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.	$\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\\\ \end{matrix}}\right.$	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		$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$	51
	Lumbago		2		7
	Neuralgia and nervous pains				8	16
									490

1. Infantile.
2. A vulnere.
3. Tertian.