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General pathology, as conducive to the establishment of rational principles for the diagnosis and treatment of disease : a course of lectures, delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital during the summer session of 1850, / by John Simon, F.R.S.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
1850
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Credit: General pathology, as conducive to the establishment of rational principles for the diagnosis and treatment of disease : a course of lectures, delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital during the summer session of 1850, / by John Simon, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the obscure pathology of evacuative medicines. For it is out of large knowledge in pharmacology, that successful results will be worked for the aims just indicated to you; and such knowledge, as I have told you, must be of a very different order to those pompous but empty pretensions which at pre- sent usurp its place. It must found itself on information, exact and complete, of the several changes which either disease or medicine can produce in the chemistry of the blood and its excretions. From the basis of this information alone, can we pretend to an intelligent application of our resources, or hope to direct our aim, distinctly and efficiently, to those preventive and counteractive purposes which Pathology sets before us.