Laennec, his life, labours, and influence in medicine : being the address in medicine delivered at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Cork, August, 1879 / by Alfred Hudson.

  • Hudson, Alfred, 1808-1880.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Laennec, his life, labours, and influence in medicine : being the address in medicine delivered at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Cork, August, 1879 / by Alfred Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I would add one remark to the above. It is, that a careful perusal of the excellent, albeit somewhat antiquated, chapter of Lommius on the diet of a fever patient might help to guard the young practitioner from the too prevalent perver- sion and abuse of Graves’s famous saying, “He fed fevers.” In England these great observers were suc- ceeded by men scarcely less noteworthy; by Fothergill, Fordyce, Heberden, and Currie, whose practical writings will live as long as the art is cultivated. Contemporary with these were others of great ability, who aimed at generalization rather than observation, and who strove to con- struct systems to which the medicine of the future should conform. I need not tell you that the systems of Cullen, Brown, and Darwin have become things of the past and are forgotten. But we pass on to the epoch of Pathology and Clinical Medicine inaugurated by Morgagni and his contemporaries and successors. In an ad- mirable address, delivered before the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society in 1874,5 Pro- fessor Gairdner thus tersely describes the character of Morgagni’s work:— “In investigating the seats of diseases, Mor- gagni is not content to record the coincidence of a lesion in an organ with the symptoms apparently due to disordered function in that orsran. O 0 British Medical Journal, 1874, vol. ii., p. 15.