A contribution to medical statistics from the acting medical officers of the New Town Dispensary of Edinburgh / [Robert Omond].

  • Omond, Robert, 1806-1881.
Date:
1841]
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Credit: A contribution to medical statistics from the acting medical officers of the New Town Dispensary of Edinburgh / [Robert Omond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICAL STATISTICS, raoM THE ACTING MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE NEW TOWN DISPENSARY OF EDINBURGH. COMMUNICATED BY OMOND, M.D. EDIN., F.R.C.S.E., MEDICAL SECRETARY OF THE DISPENSURT, 'ATYD A. DOUGLAS MACLAGAN, M.D. EDIN., F.R.C.S.E., LECTURER ON MATERIA MEDICA. f Extracted from the Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science— May In presenting to the medical profession the recorded practice of an Edinburgh Dispensary, during the currency of one year, it would be presumptuous to affirm that much information can be at once communicated. Such a record possesses little intrinsic value, and, except among those immediately connected with the institution, its detailed proceedings must be uninteresting. It is very different, however, when many such records are preserved, whether proceeding from several medical establishments, during the same year, or from the same establishment during a series of years. In either case, beneficial results may be confidently ex¬ pected ; and limiting the remark to the latter alternative, it may be safely asserted, that if, for a succession of years, there be kept registers of disease, similar to the following, and subjected, no doubt, to annual improvement, an amount of experience will, in due time, accumulate, not only instructive and valuable to the medical profession, but specially calculated to tost and to esta¬ blish the principles of medical statistics.