Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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    Dr. Heberden affords an excellent ex- ample of strict philosophical disquisition on this subject. Bordieu’s more exten- sive treatise, on the discovery of the crisis of diseases from the pulse, is chiefly trans- lated from a still more voluminous work on the same subject by Dr. Solano, a Spanish physician, the study of which will amply repay the attention it demands. I have myself verified at the bed-side of a patient many of his minute, and what, per- haps, would be considered, by those who had not tried them by the test of expe- rience, fanciful indications; and I have no doubt, that many more of his prog- nostics would be discovered to be founded in truth, by those who would carefully make the experiment. The Chinese physicians, it is well known, have long had the credit of pay-