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MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 



Table M. — Non-congenital pupiln of the Illinois Institution, classified according to the period when 

 hearing teas lost and according to the disease that caused deafness. 



Cause of (Uafuess. 



00 



Spotted fever * 



Meningitis * 



Scarlet fever 



Brain fever 



Inflammation of brain 



Congestion of brain 



Disease of ear ' .'. 



Diseases of lungs and air passages - . 



Accident ^ 



Measles 



Typhoid fever 



Whoopiug-cougb 



Convulsions * 



Quinine 



Hydrocephalus 



Diphtheria 



Miscellaneous diseases'' 



Diseases not specified 



18 

 6 

 5 

 1 

 7 

 7 

 6 

 4 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 1 



24 

 23 



22 



9 

 2 

 2 



8 

 6 

 9 

 6 

 8 

 2 

 2 

 6 

 4 



27 

 6 



28 



31 



4 



3 



12 



29 

 9 



17 

 2 



Total , 



21 lie. 



133 



2^4 



a 



a 

 .a 



a 



7 



143 



27 



10 



12 



5 



28 



17 



7 



11 



5 



8 



3 



3 



4 

 19 



18 



120 : 327 



o 

 H 



48 

 179 

 110 

 73 

 25 

 11 

 63 

 50 

 40 

 37 

 37 

 20 

 17 

 14 

 10 

 10 

 81 

 122 



947 



*Epideniic cerebro-spinal meniugitis. 



* Includes gathering in head (3 cases), scrofnla (10 cases), gathering in ears, sore ears, earadie, rising in head, risings, swelling in head, 

 gradual loss, inflammation of head, sickness in head. 



*Inclndes cold (31 cases), lung fever, pneumonia, bronchial atlection, inlliienza, catarrh (5 cases). 



^Includes shock of lightning, sunstroke, exposure to heat, fell into water, sea-sickness, hum, sc.ahl. sprain in neck, far oai> for scald-head, 

 washing in cold spring, fright (2 cases), fall (22 cases), diinking lye (1 case). 



* Includes spasms and tits. 



'Includes mumps (7 cases), bilious fevt^r (9 cases), nervous fever (C cases), congestive chill (7 cases), winter fever (8 cases), remittent 

 ever (3 cases), teething, .jaundice, pei-nicious fever, worms and fever, ague, paralysis, vaccination, small-pus, chicken-pox, cholera, croup, 

 cramps, chills, cold plague, worm feviT typhus fever, cholera infantum, inllanim.Tti4)n of limvels, disiase of kidney, cancer, rickets, erysip- 

 elas, spinal disease (G eases) . 



