The cause and treatment of rickets / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1876
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Credit: The cause and treatment of rickets / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sometimes truly distinguished; but accurate differential diagnosis was unattainable. Yet no elaborate apparatus, no vast advance of collateral science was necessary. Even the hint had been given, for Hippocrates had put his ear to the chest. He had listened, but he had not listened long enough; and this simple method of accurate diagnosis lay obvious but unseen till Laennec, two thou¬ sand and more years afterwards, set it before the world. The history of simple ulcer of the stomach presents another astonishing example. The disease may run an obscure course, but when perforation takes place the symptoms are terrific, and the post-mortem appearances easily recognised. The symptoms were observed. In the famous case of the Duchess of Orleans the morbid anatomy of the observers is accurate# in its details. Yet it was a century and a half before Cruveilher f appeared to put ulcer of the stomach on the list of well- known diseases. If Pott had claimed the discovery and not only the explanation of angular curvature, the statues of iEsop would have been evidence against him. Among the ancient sculpture at the British Museum, there is a piece which seems modelled from an enlarged wrist-joint, but the fragment is too small to be of much value. Sculp¬ tors, no doubt, chose well-formed models. They were imbued with the principle that it is the province of Art to exhibit beauty and not deformity, and strove to exceed the best forms before them rather than to copy the first men they came across. The early painters followed the same plan, and though in one or two * Littre : “Medecine et Medecins,’’ ed. III., Paris, 1875, p. 465. t Littre : “M. et M.,” p. 460.
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