Observations on the importance in purchases of land, or mercantile adventures, of ascertaining the rates or laws of mortality among Europeans, by chronic diseases and hot climates : on the data necessary for constructing tables to show the probable duration of a disease : illustrations of the progress of mania, melancholia, craziness, & demonomania, as displayed in Shakespeare's characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar : on the comparative danger of first and subsequent child-births : with an appendix, containing the form of a deed for establishing a joint-stock company, without requiring the aid of Parliament, or the incumbrance of an Act to sue and be sued / by George Farren.

  • Farren, George.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the importance in purchases of land, or mercantile adventures, of ascertaining the rates or laws of mortality among Europeans, by chronic diseases and hot climates : on the data necessary for constructing tables to show the probable duration of a disease : illustrations of the progress of mania, melancholia, craziness, & demonomania, as displayed in Shakespeare's characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar : on the comparative danger of first and subsequent child-births : with an appendix, containing the form of a deed for establishing a joint-stock company, without requiring the aid of Parliament, or the incumbrance of an Act to sue and be sued / by George Farren. 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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    man, and the Englishman. Before the Capitalist therefore can deduct the value of the annuities from the price he would give for the freehold, he should not onlv be satisfied of the circumstances in which the annuitants are presently or likely to be placed, but also, that the values are deduced from data of so satisfactory a character, as to leave no doubt of the certainty of the law of mortality to which the annuitants are, or may become sub- ject. On the correctness of these estimates must the advantage of his purchase depend. A merchant sending goods to a foreign market, either on credit to a respectable managing owner or under care of a supercargo skilled in the value of the commodity and familiar with the destined market, would reasonably deem his security or profit, in some degree, dependant on the life of the owner or manager; and such a consideration would influence him in determining the prices to be affixed, so as to cover the risks of life, either by effecting insurance, or becoming his own as- surer by running the risk for the extra gain. The same information and degree of certainty would therefore be necessary in this -case, as in the former. Similar remarks may be applied to the lives of persons sufl'ering from chronic diseases in Europe; and it has been the w^ant of observa- tions on their probable duration and on the mor- tality among Europeans when beyond the li-