The personal equation / by Louis Berman.

  • Louis Berman
Date:
1925
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Credit: The personal equation / by Louis Berman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gans post-mortem experience had informed them might be responsible for the presenting symp¬ toms. Naturally, they came to be most pre¬ occupied with the gross situations obtaining in the machinery usually spoken of as inside the body—the heart and the lungs, the liver and spleen, the small intestines and the large intes¬ tines, the stomach and the kidneys. Like the workers in all the other sciences, they were lim¬ ited to the exploitation of the material offered them by the so-called five senses. And they ac¬ complished wonders with them, once the unham¬ pered study of anatomy had furnished correct ideas regarding the locality and boundaries of the various organs, and the changes of disease. Then came the achievements of the great Laen- nec, who invented the stethoscope. From the very beginnings of modern medicine instruments used in physics and chemistry have been directly taken over or adapted to produce records of precision, extending the range of the senses as well as act¬ ing as a check upon them. X-ray plates are the examples par excellence of a magnification of the power of hand and eye to map out alterations in the size, shape, and consistency of viscera. Of late, moreover, functional tests have been elabor¬ ated to supplement the other procedures. Thus
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