Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner.

  • Oliver Warner
Date:
1868
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Credit: Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Causes of Death—Continued. TABULAR IiIST. I. 2.- CLASS I—(Continued.) Order 2.—Enthetic. -1. Syphilis, 2. Stricture of Uretbra,. 3. Hydropliobia, .... 4. Glanders, Order 3.—Dietic. L 3.—1. Privation, 2. Purpura and Scurvy,. 3. Delirium Tremens, ) f K^ ^ ^• ■* A T ^ r (AlcouMism,) 4. Intemperance, ), ^ '-^ Order 4.—Parasitic. I. 4.—1. Thrush, 2. Worms, &c., .... CLASS 11. Constitutional .Diseases. Order 1.—Diathetic. n. 1.—1. Gout, . . . 2. Dropsy and Ans&mia, 3. Cancer, ..... 4. Noma (or Canker,) . 5. Mortification, .... Order 2.—Tubercular. II. 2.—1. Scrofula, 2. Tabes Mesenterica, . 3. Phthisis (Consumption of Lungs,) 4. Hydrocephalus, CLASS III. Local Diseases. Order 1.—Nervotts System. III. 1.—1. Cephalitis, 2. Apoplexy, 3. Paralysis, 4. Insanity,. 5. Chorea, . 6. Epilepsy, 7. Tetanus, . 8. Convulsions, 9. Brain Diseases,* ^c SU?PIjE3ME]SrTAL LIST. I. 2.—1. Gonorrhoea. Purulent ophthalmia. 4. Necusia, (usually from dissection wounds.) Malignant pustule. I. 3.—1. Want of Breast Milk. 2. Rickets. Bronchocele. I. 4.—2. Porrigo. Scabies. Tape-worm. Hydatids. II. 1.—3. Soft cancer. Sweep's cancer. Melanosis. Other kinds of cancer. Polypus (part notstated) Lupus. 5. Bed-sore. Dry gangrene. II. 2.—1. Psoas abscess. Lumbar abscess. White swelling. Cretinism. 2. Tubercular peritonitis. 3. Hajmoptj'sis. 4. Tubercular meningitis. III. 1.—1. Myelitis, Phrenitis. Cerebro-spinal Menin- gitis. 4. Fright. Grief. Melancholia. Rage. 6. Hysteria. 8. Laryngismus stridulus. 9. Neuralgia. Ophthalmia. Otitis. Dis. of spinal marrow. Necrencephalus (Soft- ening of Brain—Ra- moUisement.) * Other diseases of the brain, or diseases of the nerTOus system, not otherwise distinguished, are referred to this head. Mutatis mutandis, the note applies the corresponding heads in other orders of this class.