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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2014
The subject with which you have invited me to deal on this occasion is one of great importance, but it is hedged about by so many uncertainties that it is of more than ordinary difficulty. Many attempts have been made to solve the problems which arise from its consideration, and it may possibly be regarded as almost outworn; yet, with the growth of knowledge in the present day, it is one which permits useful reconsideration.
page 227 note 1 Horace, Carmina, lib. i., car. l.
page 228 note 1 Watson, Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, Lecture 8.
page 228 note 2 Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 1., chap. vi.
page 228 note 3 Hume, Essay xxxix., sect, vi., 7a.
page 228 note 4 Cicero, De Divinatione, lib. 11., sect. lvii.
page 228 note 5 Hippocrates; Adams' Translation, Prognostics 1.
page 228 note 6 Clark, Brit. Med. Jour., 1887, vol. 1.
page 228 note 7 Pye-Smith, Trans. Hunt. Soc., 1891.
page 228 note 8 Broadbent, Heart Disease, chaps, vi. and vii.
page 229 note 1 Davidson, On the Medical Selection of Lives for Life Assurance, 1889.
page 229 note 2 Muirhead, Causes of Death among the Assured in the Scottish Widows' Fund, 1874-1894.
page 230 note 1 Bramwell, Analysis of Deaths in the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1909.
page 232 note 1 System of Medicine, edited by Osier and M'Crae, vol. vi., 1909.
page 234 note 1 Op. cit.
page 238 note 1 Potain, Clinique médicale di la Charité, 1894.
page 240 note 1 Loc. cit.
page 240 note 2 Op. cit., p. 18.
page 241 note 1 Theodore Williams, Trans. Life Assurance Medical Officers' Association, 1898-9.
page 243 note 1 Trans. Life Assurance Medical Officers' Association, 1896-7.
page 243 note 2 System of Medicine, Allbutt and Rolleston, vol. i., 1905.
page 248 note 1 Gairdner, Brit. Med. Jour., 1898, vol. ii.