. Darwinism, medical progress and eugenics; the Cavendish lecture, 1912, an address to the medical profession. Heredity; Eugenics; Eugenics; Genetics, Medical. i8 THE CAVENDISH LECTURE tion. To deny that, Gentlemen, is after all to deny the progress of medical science. You know in a general way that the death- rate, corrected for age, has fallen enormously in this country. But I should like to place before you its actual history. You see (Figs. 6 and 7) at once the three great periods in the GENERAL 150 1^5 J. ROnUST 50 25 0 -85 -50 ROBUST NORMALLY HEALTHY MOTHER 1 1 r 75 -\Q0-\1b 150
. Darwinism, medical progress and eugenics; the Cavendish lecture, 1912, an address to the medical profession. Heredity; Eugenics; Eugenics; Genetics, Medical. i8 THE CAVENDISH LECTURE tion. To deny that, Gentlemen, is after all to deny the progress of medical science. You know in a general way that the death- rate, corrected for age, has fallen enormously in this country. But I should like to place before you its actual history. You see (Figs. 6 and 7) at once the three great periods in the GENERAL 150 1^5 J. ROnUST 50 25 0 -85 -50 ROBUST NORMALLY HEALTHY MOTHER 1 1 r 75 -\Q0-\1b 150 -175 DELICATE Fig. 4.—Diagram to illustrate fall in health of son with fall in health of mother. Note anomalous position of sons of delicate mothers. history of our English death-rate : (i) The period of stability, quite uninfluenced by factory legistation, 1835-1865 ; (2) the period of sanitary science, 1866-1891, with its continuous fall in the death- rate ; (3) the period of modern medicine, 1891-1911, with still further acceleration in the fall. I think we can be quite confident. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936. London : Dulau & co. , ltd.
Size: 1646px × 1518px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectheredit, bookyear1912
