Note 15 — PART FIRST. OF INFLAMMATION. (continued 4)

[This disease is much more frequent in old than in young persons. Of one hundred and eight cases, collected by Dr. Bizot, of Geneva, from the writings of Morgagni, Corvisart, Laennec, Scarpa, Boyer, Hodgson, Richard, and S. Cooper, only a single one occurred before the twentieth year. Fifteen were noticed from the age of twenty to twenty-nine; thirty-five, from thirty to thirty-nine; thirty-one, from forty to forty-nine; fourteen, from fifty to fifty-nine; eight, from sixty to sixty-nine; two, from seventy to seventy-nine; and two, from eighty to eighty-nine. Thus it would appear that more persons suffer from this malady from the age of thirty to fifty than during all the other periods of life put together. (Elem. of Path. Anat. vol. i., p. 288.)—ED.]