The Geographical Distribution Of Disease In Great Britain

Author : Alfred Haviland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330332085
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Geographical Distribution of Disease in Great Britain written by Alfred Haviland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Geographical Distribution of Disease in Great Britain When the publication of this second edition was first proposed, it was my intention to divide equally the materials of the first edition among the several parts of its successor, with such additions as had accrued since 1875. On reviewing, however, the material that had accumulated since the issue of the First Edition, it was considered advisable to condense within this Part all the facts and the propositions based upon them contained in the original work, so as to leave the succeeding parts, devoted to the principal river-basins of Great Britain, entirely free for the discussion of the new statistical material and the local facts connected with the natural history of certain diseases. Hence the delay in the issue of Part I., and the increase in the size of this volume. In the first edition I had simply to describe some remarkable and hitherto undiscovered facts in the natural history of disease, and place before my readers the physical, geological, climatological, and other facts which were coincident with certain well-defined manifestations in the geographical distribution of cancer, phthisis, and heart disease. In this second edition my function is enlarged, if not exalted, for it becomes my duty, not only to add the results of ten years more deaths (1861-70) to those I first published (1851-60), but to show how the later disease-facts agree with the earlier, and how by their so doing the geographical manifestations, which were once only spoken of as coincident with certain other facts connected with the local soils and climates, may now be regarded as having a closer and more clearly-defined relationship. Had the geographical distribution of deaths from Cancer, Phthisis, or Heart Disease throughout England and Wales during 1861-70 differed in any essential character from that observed during the preceding decade, 1851-60, I would not have embarked on the costly undertaking of which this volume forms the first part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.