The surgical diseases and injuries of the stomach and intestines / by F. Bowreman Jessettt.

  • Jessett, F. Bowreman (Frederic Bowreman)
Date:
1892
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The surgical diseases and injuries of the stomach and intestines / by F. Bowreman Jessettt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    20/348 (page 4)
    cases collected by the first two named physicians, 151 were males and 72 females; in 1,303 cases collected by Dr. Wilson Fox, there were 680 males and 623 females; and in 2,214 cases reported by Dr. Welch, 1,233 men were affected, against 981 women. The Eegistrar-General, in his last report, confirms these statements, for, in referring to the increase of cancer in different organs, he states that the increase is comparatively slight in those organs which are most commonly the seat of malignant growths; but has been largest in the organs of digestion, and among men there has been a large increase in diseases of the digestive system. Age.—The age at which this organ is most frequently attacked, as pointed out by the authorities already named, is much more frequent after middle Ufe than before. Thus, as you will observe by the following table, of 74 cases collected by Habershon, 61 were over forty years of age, and the great majority between the ages of fifty and sixty. Agb. • 1 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60j60-70 70-80 Total. ] Habershon Welch • ... Jessett .. 1 2 2 55 4 10 271 5 17 499 6 24 620 30 18 428 7 2 140 8 74 i 2,015 i 60 1 The statistics collected by Welch confirm this, as out of 2,016 cases, 1,687 were over forty years of age, and 1,119 between the ages of forty and sixty. In 60 cases that have been under my care during the last six years, 51 were over forty, and 36 between forty and sixty. The average age, then, may be put at about fifty-one years, when the largest number of cases are met with. Heredity.—Family taint has been most distinctly recog- nised in this disease. The family of Napoleon is said to