The future of medicine / by Sir James Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, James, 1853-1925
Date:
1919
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Credit: The future of medicine / by Sir James Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Drugs {cont.)— action on the heart, how re¬ corded, 92, 93 cardiac, action of, iig knowledge of the action of, 24» - 25 law of associated phenomena in relation to, 131 method of studying the effects of, 115, 116 Drug treatment of cardiac affec¬ tions, errors in, 172 ^ Dudgeon’s sphygmograph in re¬ cording jugular pulsation, 85 . , o. (illustration), 86 E Early stages of disease, 3 principles of the study of, 8, 9 Education—see Medical education Efficiency—see Functional efficiency Epigastric pain, 68, 71, 205 Epigastric pulsation, 88 Etiology, 5, 26, 40 Examinations— causes of failure at, 17, 18 nature of, 16, 17 observations on, 16, 17 students and examiners during, 17 Examiners— duties of, 17 faults of, 16, 17 observations on, 17 Exhaustion, sense of, 160 Extra systole— auricular, 98 characteristics and nature of, 99 significance of, 99 tracings showing, 99. 100 ventricular, 98 F Failure of compensation, use of the term, 169 Failure of laboratory methods, 182 Failures in treatment, 44 Fallacy in specialisnT; 45 Febrile conditions, extra systole during, 99 , Function, pathology of, 140 Functional efficiency— how estimated, i53» ^^7 summary 01 observations on, loi Functional symptoms, 138 and prognosis, 152 of cardiac inefficiency, 1^7, 15° significance and detection of, see also Symptoms, 139 Functions of organs, observations on, 143 G Gall-bladder, “tender,” 69, 74 Gall-stone colic— cutaneous hyperalgesia in a case of, 69 reflex phenomena of, 145 Gastric ulcer— pain of, 68, 71, 78 site of, pain and cutaneous hyperalgesia indicating, 71 General practitioner— and medical investigation, 9, 14 and educational matters, 19 and the teaching of unnecessary subjects, 20 as teacher, ii, 218, 222 clinical training of, 186, 187, 219 education of, 219 ^ his place in medicine, 217, 218 importance of physiology to, 21 in relation to research, ii opportunities of, for study of disease, 9, 10, 151 shortcomings of the medical education of, 61 H Heart— abnormal rhy^m of, 178 action and rhythm of, tracing showing, 94 action of chambers of, 88, 94 action of digitalis on, 51, 107 action of drugs on, how re¬ corded, 92, 93