Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... DISSERTATION. That the part of nature and time in the cure of certain diseases is a very large one, is a truth which has long been known to, and practically made use of by the most enlightened physicians, and the number of the diseases where it is admitted that nature's assistance is mainly to be relied upon, has in late years much increased. A popular prejudice to the contrary has so clearly harmonized with that feeling of which all men have more or less, namely, the wish to be or to seem of use and importance, that it has caused this truth to be somewhat neglected, and by many entirely lost sight of. The more philosophical spirit of modern inquiry, which leads us to look at things as they are, and not as we would have them to be, is causing scientific men to diminish their estimate of the physician's power over the natural processes of disease, even while directing, and that too with not insignificant success attained and more hoped for, systematic and intelligent efforts to increase that power. The medical profession of the present day, though possessing far greater knowledge of physiological and pathological science than ever before, and far greater resources in the arts of medicine and surgery, must yet be content to acknowledge the somewhat narrow limits of its curative powers, and while really doing much more, can honestly claim as its own work much less than earlier and less instructed generations thought they had a right to do. The ways in which this fact has been proved and is still forced upon our attention are various. The general advance of physiology and pathology consequent upon increased opportunities for post-mortem examinations, the improvement of the microscope, the increased knowledge of the collateral sciences, especially chemistry, and...
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