Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, William.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PART I. PATHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, On complicated cases of Dropsy and Purpura. Every experienced physician must know that the ingenuity and zeal with which many able writers have concealed their failure in attempts to discover the proximate causes of dis- eases, and to generalise on too limited n number of facts, have been felt and deplored as an ex- tensive source of error : but unfortunately that experience does not appear to have moderated the love of systems, the followers of which, on the contrary, either for a long time obstinately assert that the facts adduced in contradiction of their theories are but anomalies from the general