Physiological system of nosology : with a corrected and simplified nomenclature / by John Mason Good.

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827.
Date:
1820
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    commonly, after the botanists, that of classes, orders, ge- nera, and species; and, in consequence of such greater strictness, is better calculated to assist the memory. Upon the synoptic method it is not the author's inten- tion to touch; the systematic has so many advantages over it, as well in learning as in retaining a subject, that it has lonu; taken the lead wherever it has been found ca- pable of adoption, and especially in several of the prac- tical branches of physiological science, as /oology, botany, and mineralogy; to which we may soon hope to add che- mistry, though many of the facts of this last study are still too isolated, and the results of many of its experiments too disputable, to enable us to employ the systematic method here with auy great advantage at present. It is under this form, therefore, that nosology has been chiefly taught for nearly a century ; and as the systematic arrangement admits of several modifications, every modi- fication has been tried in its turn, and has found its ad- mirers. The simplest systematic modification, if it be in any way worthy of the name, is the (ilphnhefic, of which, in the present da}', we have many copious examples, highly valuable as works of easy reference, though scarcely entitled to rank under the character of systematic arrange- ment. Tn this classification belongs the very excellent and important work of Dr. Heberden. Anotlier modifi- cation which has been had recourse to is that of the (hirn- tinn of diseaxes, as divided into acute and chronic; it is a modification of considera])lc antiquity, and has descended to us in the works of Aretscus, and of Cfplius Aurelianus. A third modification has consisted in taking the anatomy ot the animal frame as a groimd-work f6r divisions; and consequently in assorting diseases, as has been done by Jonslon, Sennert, and Morgagni, and since been recom- mended by Dr. Mead in his Medical Precepts and Cau- tions, into those oF thr head, chest, belly, limbs, and almost, every other part. A fourth invention has fixed