Outlines of medical proof : revised and corrected, with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Outlines of medical proof : revised and corrected, with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo. 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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    * OUTLINES or M EI)IC A L P R 0 0 F. CHAPTER 1. limitation and division of subject—Source* of proof cipemnrr.t and obaer- vatiott—Main source of medical proof prvptrly so mIM; oWrTstma- Kipcriivnt how applicable, Sir < h&rlt* Bdl, Dr, Williams—Indue- tiofi ; region*to it, quoad medical wiesce, of nlwrrvatiou and ctjicn mrot—It may be non-hypothetical or hypothetical , fenertl valor of hfpotlicsa*, illustrated in the reformation of theory of craawl j»-owu 1% Dr. Burrow*—1 ustancoa of uoiebypotbctkal induction; Dr Brif.it (Mutraatrd with Dr. Johnson, Dr. Jcnuer— Hypothetical induction of ft>ur kiwis spenalh eonsideml—Aaaluay—Ia*Utier* (/f hypaUMtirai induction, from cardiac disease, hepatic disease reflet function— Inchoate laductnma frequent; wmc worthiew medical literature of that kud— >imole ennun ration considered with relat»v> to iuducti.jn, dacno. by Lont Bacon as res pturiliawherein uscful. The terms Pathology and Therapeutics arc the most com- prehensive expressions cf the subject matter of inetlical proof; but these expressions indicate pursuits in which the physician participate with the general philosopher. Tin- physician must, in diifcrent degrees, be anatomist, physio- logist, chemist, and botanist. All these sciences may be possessed by the physical philosopher without his laying any Haim to the character of a physician, from whom he differs in this respect, that these pursuits are followed by the physician with a riew to an ulterior end, namely, the dis- D