Health and disease, (in English and Welsh) = Iechyd ac afiechyd, (yn Saes'neg a Chymraeg) / by John Lewis Prichard.

Date:
1872
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Credit: Health and disease, (in English and Welsh) = Iechyd ac afiechyd, (yn Saes'neg a Chymraeg) / by John Lewis Prichard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    from that of the female; and this difference is strongly- marked in the diseases to which each is liable. The liability to sickness, and the duration of it when it occurs, increases with age. Certain periods of life are more liable to disease than others. In infants, the often imperfect estab- lishment of the function of respiration; in early childhood, the disturbance produced by teething, and the liability to disorders of the stomach and bowels, convulsions and affections of the brain. In youth, the disorders of the alimentary canal become less frequent and less fatal; but they act severely upon the brain and nervous system. Towards the age of puberty, the male and female are liable to many dis- eases, especially of the nervous system, and fits. By the twenty-third year, the process of ossification is perfect, and the body attains its full growth. From the twenty-third to the fiftieth year—during the first part of this period, fevers, inflammations, consumption, decline, indigestion, diseases of the liver, rheumatism, disease of the heart, lowness of spirits, and nervous affections, are very common ; but towards the fiftieth year, men are more liable to con- gestion, affections of the head, disease of the heart, asthma, cough, etc.; and women are more liable to strange nervous affections, lowness of spirits, disease of the heart, liver complaint, pains in the head, rheumatic pains, and dropsy often accompany the change of life in women. From the age of fifty onwards, the body in the male and female begins to show symptoms of loss of power, and sluggishness of function, loss of memory, muscu- lar weakness, diseases of the kidneys and bladder, rheumatic pains, bronchitis, asthma, cough, difficulty of breathing, lowness of spirits, pain in the back, and diseases of the heart; diseases of the liver, and dropsy