Practical life insurance examinations with a chapter on the insurance of substandard livesLippincott, 1908 - 230 pages |
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Page 204 - There should be nothing in the family history indicative of heredity of Bright's disease, and there should be no symptom of renal disease in the personal history except albuminuria. 2. The candidate should be under forty years of age, in good health, and there should be no history of gout, rheumatism, syphilis, lead - poisoning, nephritis, intemperance, chronic dyspepsia, or dropsy.
Page 47 - I believe that things often work in a vicious circle to this end, and that the nervous enfeeblement produced in an ancestor by great excesses in drink, is reproduced in his various descendants with the effect of producing insanity in one, epilepsy in another, neuralgia in a third, alcoholic excesses in a fourth, and so on.
Page 205 - The color, density, and quantity of the twenty-four hours' urine should be normal, or it may be darker in color and heavier in density. 6. The specific gravity of the twenty-four hours' urine should not be below 1.020.
Page 205 - It may range from 1.015 to 1.030. 7. The precipitated albumen should not exceed one-eighth of the urine. 8. There should be a period of the twenty-four hours when the urine is free from albumen. 9. The urine, as a rule, should contain no tube-casts. When, however, the specific gravity and quantity of urine are normal, the presence of a few hyaline casts have no serious import.
Page 73 - The greater the number of vibrations per second the higher the pitch ; the fewer per second the lower the pitch.
Page 204 - ... albuminuria, as in most other diseased conditions. " We are apt to find light weight associated with albuminuria of the young, and in many of these cases it seems to be due to the latter. " On the other hand, over-weight with albuminuria is apt to occur in persons over thirty, and is of graver significance than under-weight, as the same causes which have produced the obesity have probably also occasioned organic changes in the kidneys. " (9) The use of alcoholics beyond the most moderate extent...
Page 204 - If the age is over forty, these prospects are much dimmed, and such cases should be regarded with suspicion. " (8) Extremes of weight, both high and low, are prejudicial in albuminuria, as in most other diseased conditions. " We are apt to find light weight associated with albuminuria of the young, and in many of these cases it seems to be due to the latter. " On the other hand, over-weight with albuminuria is apt to occur in persons over thirty, and is of graver significance than under-weight, as...
Page 211 - ... of the immediate family increases the probability of its appearance in the applicant. 2. That consumption in a brother or sister is at least equal in importance to parental phthisis. 3. That "underweights" are much more liable to the disease than are "overweights.
Page 94 - ... projects further into the left than into the right cavity of the chest, extending from the median line about three inches in the former direction, and only one and a half in the latter.
Page 203 - An increased arterial tension is thus shown which may indicate the beginning of arterio- capillary fibrosis, or which may be due to the stimulation and consequent narrowing of the arterioles by blood from which the irritant excrementitious products have not been properly removed. In either case the sign is a bad one, as it points to something more than a functional disturbance. 6. Headaches must be regarded in this connection as an evil omen, if they are at all frequent, or severe. 7. The age of...