The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches: a Biographical Summary ... a Bibliographical Repertory of All Works Written Upon the Subject ... an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance ...C. and E. Layton, 1880 - Insurance |
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Page 50
... temperature , occupation , food , clothing , nor hereditary tendency , so far as the present generation is liable to be predisposed to heart disease from its Scandinavian , its Saxon , or its Celtic origin , would account , as general ...
... temperature , occupation , food , clothing , nor hereditary tendency , so far as the present generation is liable to be predisposed to heart disease from its Scandinavian , its Saxon , or its Celtic origin , would account , as general ...
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... temperature in which they work , causing a great increase in the cutaneous excretions and exhalations and in the activity of the respiratory process , and relieving the circulatory system in a superior degree . Heart disease , so far as ...
... temperature in which they work , causing a great increase in the cutaneous excretions and exhalations and in the activity of the respiratory process , and relieving the circulatory system in a superior degree . Heart disease , so far as ...
Page 59
... temperature . They are never so hot or so cold as the extremes of temperature to which they may be exposed . Man has prob . the maximum of this vital power of maintaining an independent temperature . A dead body freezes as soon as the ...
... temperature . They are never so hot or so cold as the extremes of temperature to which they may be exposed . Man has prob . the maximum of this vital power of maintaining an independent temperature . A dead body freezes as soon as the ...
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... temperature rises above 70 ° Fahr . , we need more than radiation . Then the action of the sweat - forming glands is increased , and the body is cooled by evaporation . It is this profuse perspiration , and the rapid taking up of the ...
... temperature rises above 70 ° Fahr . , we need more than radiation . Then the action of the sweat - forming glands is increased , and the body is cooled by evaporation . It is this profuse perspiration , and the rapid taking up of the ...
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... temperature is sometimes as high as 45 ° ; while Nova Zembla has an extreme midsummer heat of 34 ° -two degrees above the freezing - point of water . In the year 1872 an extraordinary degree of heat prevailed over a large proportion of ...
... temperature is sometimes as high as 45 ° ; while Nova Zembla has an extreme midsummer heat of 34 ° -two degrees above the freezing - point of water . In the year 1872 an extraordinary degree of heat prevailed over a large proportion of ...
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Aberystwith Accident Actuary agent aneurism angina pectoris Annu Annuities apoplexy Asso Assu average Bath Bills of Mort body branch Brighton building causes climate condition connexion considerable consumption contained contract death-rate deaths from diseases defts districts dropsy Eastbourne effect England English estab experience favourable females Fire Friendly Grand Pensionary Hardy hazardous Health Resorts heart disease heat heir Hercules hereditary hist hot water Ilfracombe increase influence Inst insured Invalidity liability Littlehampton Lives Llandudno London Lowestoft males Margate Marine North Meols organ orig paper pericarditis persons Physicians pipes places Post Mag practical prem present Preservation of Health prob Railway Ramsgate rate of mort Reg.-Gen regarded regis remarked risk Sanitary Science Scotland sickness South Bersted Statistics sub-district Teignmouth temperature towns Treatise tuenda ventilation watering-places wherein