An Address on the Position of Pathology With Regard to Clinical Diagnosis: Delivered Before the Bristol Medical Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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When stomach surgery was unknown it mattered little whether a pyloric stenosis was simple or malignant, as a fatal termination was inevitable in either case nor, as a rule, was there much object in diagnosing between a simple and a malignant gastric tumour, for neither could be removed.

When the functions of the pancreas were unknown its diseases naturally hardly entered into the mind of the practical physician, and, in fact, it is only very recently that surgery has had anything to do with this important viscus. Similar observations might be applied to many other organs in the body, as the gall-bladder, liver, and duodenum. The purpose, therefore, of an accurate dia gnosis was often rather theoretical than practical, so far as the well-being of the patient was concerned.

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