--+------
Major pathological amputa- | | || |
tions................... |280 cases| 138 || 98 cases| 44
Minor pathological amputa- | | || |
tions................... |106 cases| 9 || 40 cases| 2
Major traumatic amputations|165 " | 107 || 17 " | 10
Minor traumatic amputations| 73 " | 13 || 10 " | 0
|---------+------++--------+------
Total..................|624 cases| 267 ||165 cases| 56
|----------------++----------------
|or, 37.98 deaths|| 34.18 deaths
| per 100 || per 100
--------------------------------------------------------------
A difference of 3.8 per cent. in favor of women.

FENWICK (NEWCASTLE, GLASGOW, EDINBURGH)

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| Men |Deaths|| Women |Deaths
---------------------------+---------+------++---------+------
Amputations................|304 cases| 86 || 64 cases| 16
|----------------++----------------
|or, 27.86 deaths|| 25 deaths per
| per 100 || 100
--------------------------------------------------------------
A difference of 2.86 per cent. in favor of women.

TOTAL FOR THE THREE SERIES

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| Men |Deaths|| Women |Deaths
---------------------------+----------+------++---------+------
Amputations................|1144 cases| 441 ||284 cases| 83
|-----------------++----------------
|or, 38.56 deaths || 29.29 deaths
| per 100 || 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 5 to 15 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 sensitive and therefore more
_disvulnerable_, i.e., better able to resist pain. Carle
assure