The nomenclature of diseases / drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The nomenclature of diseases / drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATIONS. Those diseases only have been defined which seemed to require it ; and the definitions have been framed for the purpose of identification only, not as explanations of the phenomena of disease. The words ' tending to ' have always been applied to an event which is natural and probable, but not inevitable : ' resulting in ' to an event which is inevitable, if the disease runs its natural course. With a view to facilitate the registration of disease in accordance with this Nomenclature, the following Explanations are offered : By turning to the Alphabetical Index, the name of any disease may be readily found. In the body of the work the name of each disease is preceded by a distinguishing number, and as a rule is printed in Eoman letters, but in exceptional cases in Italics. Whenever such exception is observed, the disease thus printed in Italics should not be registered among the local or other affections with which it appears, but under the class to which its special number refers it, and in the order particularised at p. 15. In short, the local manifestations of general diseases are to be re- turned, not among local, but among general diseases.* * For example, in the list of diseases of the stomach giron at p. 95, Cancer of that organ is included, but it is distinguished by Italics. And in making returns it should be placed among other cancerous affections, to which the prefixed number between brackets [44] refers it. If such return should include similar affections of other parts, the position assigned to disorders of the stomach, in relation to other organs, is deter- mined by consulting the list given at p. 15.