Lessons upon the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases : delivered in the month of August, 1865 / by Professor Velpeau ; collected and ed., by A. Regnard ; tr. by W.C.B. Fifield.

  • Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
Date:
1866
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Credit: Lessons upon the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases : delivered in the month of August, 1865 / by Professor Velpeau ; collected and ed., by A. Regnard ; tr. by W.C.B. Fifield. 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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    year, the internes read over each observation in order to condense into one line the principal facts, and arrange the tables of which the whole form a general statistic, which can always be controlled by the aid of the particular facts. The service comprises 75 beds ; the number of patients observed rises this year to 1155. This number seldom varies; last year it was 1114, once it was 1400^ at another time, 950. In short, it is nearly a thousand each year, and during the thirty years I have collected these statistics, I have reached quite a large total, which may be of real value. This ex]Dlains to you why I demand such a rigorous execution of this work. These 1155 cases are thus divided according to sex: Males, 797 Females, 358 This is an almost constant proportion, perhaps a little exaggerated this year. In this there is nothing surprising. You know that men, by reason of their occupations, are much more
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