Note 29 — PART SECOND. OF PARTICULAR SURGICAL SUBJECTS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
[The two subjoined tables, the one constructed by Mons. Maunoir, and the other by Professor Fabini, demonstrate the immense influence which age exerts upon the production of cataract:—
TABLE I.
From20to29 years5patients
30 393
40 4911
50 5925
60 6941
70 8227
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112
TABLE II.
From1to10 years14patients
11 2016
21 3018
31 4028
41 5051
51 60102
61 70172
Above70109
——
500
It has been said that men are more liable to cataract than women; the difference, however, if any, is probably very slight. Thus, in the first table, 61 were males and 60 females; in the second, 268 were males and 232 females.—ED.]