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 A DIFFERENCE IN THE METABOLISM OF THE SEXES 5 1

LAWRIE (GLASGOW).

Men Women

Pathological amputations, - no cases 29 deaths 41 cases 7 deaths Traumatic " 106 " 59 " 14 " 4

Total, - - 216 88 55 n

or, 40.74 deaths per 100 20 deaths per 100

A difference of 20.74 per cent, in favor of women.

MALGAIGNE (HOSPITALS OF PARIS).

Men Women

Major pathological amputations, 280 cases 138 deaths 98 cases 44 deaths

Minor " " 106 " 9 " 40 " 2 "

Major traumatic " 165 " 107 " .17 " 10 "

Minor " " 73 " 13 " 10 " o "

Total - 624 267 165 56

or, 37.98 deaths per 100 34.18 deaths per 100 A difference of 3.8 per cent, in favor of women.

FENWICK (NEWCASTLE, GLASGOW, EDINBURGH).

Men Women

Amputations, - 304 cases 86 deaths 64 cases 16 deaths

or, 27.86 deaths per 100 25 deaths per 100

A difference of 2.86 per cent, in favor of women.

TOTAL FOR THE THREE SERIES.

Men Women

Amputations, - 1144 cases 441 deaths 284 cases 83 deaths

or, 38. 56 deaths per 100 29.29 deaths per 100

A difference of 9.27 per cent, in favor of women.

Legouest states in the same article that the lowest mortality of all is in children from five to fifteen years of age. Ellis quotes a passage from a paper read by Lombroso at the International Congress of Experimental Psychology held in London :

Billroth experimented on women when attempting a certain operation (excision of the pylorus) for the first time, judging that they were less sen- sitive and therefore more disvulnerabU, i.e., better able to resist pain. Carle assured me that women would let themselves be operated upon almost as though their flesh were an alien thing. Giordano told me that even the pains of childbirth caused relatively little suffering to women, in spite of their apprehensions. Dr. Martini, one of the most distinguished dentists of