A comparative view of the mortality of the human species, at all ages; and of the diseases and casualites by which they are destroyed or annoyed. Illustrated with charts and tables / William Black.

  • William Black
Date:
1788
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Credit: A comparative view of the mortality of the human species, at all ages; and of the diseases and casualites by which they are destroyed or annoyed. Illustrated with charts and tables / William Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4°7 ] r A TO THE READER. WE muft here abruptly, and with regret, but for obvious reafons, the fize to which this Publication is already fwelled, cut off the remainder of our com- ments, amounting to nearly one hundred pages more, Thofe left behind unnoticed of the laft group, compre- hend moft of the chronic cutaneous difeafes, the fub- je<fts, peculiarly, of the Cofmetic Art, Through the laft group of external accidents and difeafes, I meant to have perfevered in my general plan. For inftance, under Gangrene, I fhould have diferiminated the ages, mortality, cures; and at tf>e fame time, that originat- ing from external injuries, or furgical operations, and that from fpontaneous corruption. Under Fra&ures, I fhould have gauged the fqccefs and mifearriage of am- putation, both after fudden accidents, and in confe- rence of chronic difeafes. This is a moft important part of military furgery, and I believe, in a great mea- fure, unexplored. From the trepan and lithotomy, I fhould alfo have ftated the blanks and prizes. With the furgical group I am obliged to omit the cafualties of London: one alone of which I could not entirely poftpone, without introducing a few obfervations it} this place, that is the Executed. Dd ^ Executed*