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Excerpt from On Rheumatism in Its Various Forms: And on the Affections of Internal Organs, More Especially the Heart and Brain, to Which It Gives Rise
The numerical returns and calculations are taken exclusively from cases which occurred under the author's care in St. George's Hospital, and of which public records have been kept. They are spread over twenty volumes, and extend from March 20, 1833, to Oct. 13, 1841 with the exception of a short period, viz. From Oct. 25, 1837, to March 14, 1838. This omission is owing to the circumstance of one of the Case Books (vol. Xii.) having been lost, by which the numbers are probably diminished by about one-twentieth but there is no reason to suppose that by the recovery of the missing volume either the relative proportion of the different cases, or any of the inferences regarding them, would be at all affected.
The Case Books alluded to were kept by the clinical clerks, and are deposited in the Library of the Hospital.
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