The principles and methods of medical observation and research : for the use of advanced students and junior practitioners / by Thomas Laycock.

  • Laycock, Thomas, 1812-1876.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The principles and methods of medical observation and research : for the use of advanced students and junior practitioners / by Thomas Laycock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The difllculties of medical observation and inquiry can be adequately con- ceived by the medical man alone. Neither those acciistomed to legal evidence only, nor such as have pursued physical science in its more simple material forms, can rightly apprehend the vast difference made by the Introduction of the principle of life; or yet more, of the states and phenomena of mind, in connection with bodily organisation. We have here a New World of Re- lations, occult and complex in their nature, to be reasoned upon and resolved, with a principle of change, moreover, ever operating among them, and devia- tions from nature, imder the forms of disease, which render all conclusions liable, in a thousand ways, to error.—Sir Henrt Holland, M.D. 605830