Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon (John M. Woodworth).

  • United States. Public Health Service.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon (John M. Woodworth). 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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    EXPLANATIONS. Those diseases only have been defined which seemed to require it; and the definitions have been framed for the purpose of identification only, not as explanations of the phenomena of disease. The words ^ tending to' have always been applied to an event which is natural and probable, but not inevitable: ^resulting in' to an event which is inevitable, if the disease runs its natural course. With a view to facilitate the registration of disease in accordance with this Nomenclature, the following explanations are offered: By turning to the Alphabetical Index, the name of any disease may be readily found. In the body of the work the name of each disease is preceded by a distinguishing number, and as a rule is printed in Eoman letters, but in exceptional cases in Italics. [In a few cases the ^distinguishing number' has been repeated. In this edition, to avoid possible confu- sion from the use of asterisks and obelisks for double purposes, the repeated number is followed by an Italic letter, as 73^ 73a, on p. 19; 497, 497a, 497&, on p. 53, &c. The nonpareil letters and numbers affixed to the reference numbers of names printed in Italics indicate varieties, as (101^) on p. 5 refers to ' 101. Neuralgia,' on p. 21, and to Variety ' h. Brow Ague,' on p. 22.—W.] Whenever such exception is observed, the disease thus printed in Italics should not be registered among the local or other affections with which it appears, but under the class to which its special number refers it, and, as regards the organ in which it may be seated, in the order particularised at p. 9. In short, the local manifestations of general diseases are to be re- turned, not among local, but among general diseases.* Where varieties are observable in the forms of disease, such varieties are indicated by their being ^indented,' i. e., printed below and some- what to the right of the principal heading, each being preceded by a * For example, in the list of diseases of the stomach given at p. 49, Cancer of that organ is included, but it is distinguished by Italics. And in making returns it should be placed among other cancerous affections, to which the prefixed number between brackets [24] refers it. If such return should include similar affections of other parts, the position assigned to the disorders of the stomach, in relation to other or- gans, is determined by consulting the list given at p. 9. [xxi]