Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake.

  • Elliot-Blake, Hubert.
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or reliance on one good case as it comes along, or of always being on the look out for it. But for those who write to be read, it will at least put them on their sTuard. For who has not known books and articles produced everywhere weighted with over- powering eloquence or the blinding pepper of erudite quotations and laboratory plottings, etc., ending in the usual negative or nonconclusions, or with diminutive or wrong conclusions. Again, foundations on large numbers have a tendency to presume or forgo the personal element, however elementary and satisfying a thousand subsequent cases of corroboration may be. The stray good case and unific concentration fix the person and the one certainty. Addison’s study of a few diseased suprarenal capsules reflected his own satisfaction, and fixed the form of Addison’s disease for ever. That is better than a thousand cases of Dyspepsia rot published as a book on Dyspepsia. All the discoveries belong to this Unific system : with Pasteur’s first case of Pebrine, it led to all the rest. Koch saw more for the world at his first sight of his tubercular rods, than did all the shuffling detail and stock statistics of the English adulation of officials, stuck like old stock-takers, upon a Commission on Tuberculosis. My first des-