The medical adviser in life assurance / by Edward Henry Sieveking.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The medical adviser in life assurance / by Edward Henry Sieveking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and not leave him entirely at the mercy of the pro- fessed actuary. It is not improbable that in the course of time the increasing importance and spread of life insurance may become a special branch of study for those who devote their attention to the topics embraced under the new term of State Medi- cine. We may then hope for more complete agree- ment on the main topics concerning the medical adviser in life insurance, than now prevails; and considering how closely the welfare of the commu- nity is affected in the matter, increased certainty and security to one party in the transaction must equally benefit the other. If this little hook in any way promotes so desir- able a consummation, its author will consider his labour amply rewarded. To the reader who finds it tedious, it would say, in the words of Martial #:— Si nimius videor, seraque coronide longus Esse liber ; legito pauca, libellus ero. Terque quaterque mibi finitur carmine parvo Pagina, fac tibi me quam cupis esse brevem. E. H. S. Manchester Square, March 1882. * Liber ad lectorem, Epigr. lib. x. 1.