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itants was affected, is 100 males to 80.0 females ; in 

 Ireland, where one in 1,380 of the inhabitants was 

 affected, is 100 males to Y4.5 females ; in Prussia, 

 where one in 1,360 of the inhabitants was affected, is 

 100 males to 78.0 females the last statement being 

 taken from M. Baudin's statistics." J 



Mr. Sedgwick reports a case of chronic rheumatic 

 gout, which made its appearance "gradually, in a 

 woman at the age of thirty years, and the 'joints of 

 whose hands are now, at the age of forty-three years, 

 much crippled and deformed ; her mother, who died 

 at the age of forty-six years, suffered greatly from 

 chronic rheumatic gout, which had commenced thir- 

 teen years previously, and which had thoroughly 

 crippled and deformed the joints of both hands; 

 there were three brothers and four sisters, the eldest 

 of whom was a brother aged forty-five years, all of 

 whom have been free from any similar affection ; and 

 in another case which is at present under my obser- 

 vation, in which a girl, aged eighteen years, has the 

 hands and feet dreadfully crippled by the same affec- 

 tion, which began at the age of fourteen years ; her 

 lother, maternal aunt, and maternal grandmother, 

 have all suffered in the same way, while the males of 



family have been exempt." 2 



Mr. Sedgwick reports the following case, which 

 occurred in his own practice : 



" Mrs. A , under the age of forty years, and 



the mother of seven children, has not had for many 



1 From " Report of Census in Ireland," as quoted by Mr. Sedgwick 

 in British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review, July, 1861, p. 141. 



2 British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review, July, 1862, p. 168. 



