How to examine for life insurance / By John M. Keating.

  • John Marie Keating
Date:
1890
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Credit: How to examine for life insurance / By John M. Keating. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    pulse beat, both as regards force and as regards frequency. By intermittency we mean the actual dropping of a beat. It may be rhythmical, occurring so many to the minute, or may be irregular in frequency. In some persons regular intermittency has occurred from childhood, and is supposed by many to be in certain cases normal to the individual. But irregularity is usually an evidence of some cardiac disturbance, which requires either postponement of the applicant for future examination, or absolute rejection if it is found associated with evidences of heart disease. CHAPTER VI. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. It is a curious thing how few people know their own height, and, indeed, how few know their own weight; and as the question of height and weight, as far as their relation exists to one another, is an important matter in the decision of a case, and, also, as the height is frequently of very great importance when considering the death claim, if any mystery surround the case, the figures that an Exam- iner gives should be as correct as possible ; every applicant's height should be measured, and this is a very easy thing to do by means of an ordinary tape measure, requesting the applicant to stand his heels firmly against a flat wall surface, and marking with a pencil his height, or the Examiner should have already in his office a scale, or a mark on some convenient wall, so that he can take these measurements in a few moments, and it is customary to consider the applicant's height with his shoes on. The matter of weight becomes also at times of very great im- portance, especially when we consider the under-weights and over- weights. In order to avoid the expense of an unnecessary medical examination, many Companies furnish their Agents with a table of heights and weights, the understanding being that this table only shows the average at a certain age, and that a certain per cent, over that is allowable for over-weights, and under it for under-weights,