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:
1884
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    present for the most part, but not all of them, the following characters. They run a definite course, are attended with fever, and frequently with eruptions on the skin, are more or less readily communicable from person to person, and possess the singular and important property of generally protecting those who suffer them from a second attack. They are apt to occur epidemically. Of these epidemic visitations. Dr. Fake observes, that they distinguish one country from another, one year from another, have formed epochs in chronology, have de- cimated armies and disabled fleets, have infl.uenced the fate of cities—nay, of empires. Section B comprises, for the most part, disorders which are apt to invade different parts of the same body simul- taneously or in succession. These are sometimes spoken of as constitutional diseases, and they often manifest a tendency to transmission by inheritance. The construction of this Nomenclature has been so long- in hand, that it may be proper and not uninteresting to record the circumstances of its origin and progress. The idea which led to the formation of a general Nomenclature of Diseases originated in a correspondence between Dr. Dumbeeck, of the Medical Department of the Army, and Dr. Sibson, respecting the need of such a Nomenclature for use in the Army Medical Service. But at the Comitia majora of the Eoyal College ot Physicians, held on the ninth day of July, 1857, it was resolved, on the motion of Dr. Nairne, in consequence of a letter addressed to the College by the Hospitals Com- mittee of the Epidemiological Society, ' That a Committee be appointed to prepare a Nomenclature of Diseases, and