Jaundice: its pathology and treatment : with the application of physiological chemistry to the detection and treatment of diseases of the liver and pancreas. / By George Harley.

  • Harley, George, 1829-1896.
Date:
MDCCCLXIII. [1863]
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Credit: Jaundice: its pathology and treatment : with the application of physiological chemistry to the detection and treatment of diseases of the liver and pancreas. / By George Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    of the author may, perhaps, appear to be rather dogmatic; if so, he would remind his readers that this has arisen from the circumstance of so many old dogmas, and deeply-rooted prejudices having to be combated, for he is quite alive to the fact, that what we regard as scientific truth is in no case incontrovertible certitude, and that the deductions of to-day, in an advancing science like that of medicine, may require material alteration when viewed in the light of the morrow. But he is equally convinced of the fact, that if men fold their arms, and refrain from acting until every link in the chain of knowledge is forged, all progress will be arrested, and the day of cer- tainty still further postponed. Too long have we reversed the natural order of things, and commenced the study of medicine where we ought rather to have left it off. Too long have we striven, by studying pathology ere we were sufficiently acquainted with physiology, to place the pyramid on its apex instead of on its base; and thus it is we remained so long ignorant of the fundamental doctrine, that the same laws