London medical gazette : being a weekly journal of medicine and the collateral sciences. Saturday, September 8, 1832.

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1832
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    THE LONDON MEDICAL GAZETTE, BEING A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF iWeatrine anti tlx Collateral Sciences* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1832. ESSAYS ON DIAGNOSIS. BY Marshall Hall, M.D. F.R.S. L. 5cE. &c. Essay I.—concluded, III.—On the Diagnostic Arrange- ment of Diseases. It is said that there are more than fif- teen hundred distinct varieties of the rose. It seems almost impossible that such a fact should be established; for when the number of objects and their similarity are so great, the distinction, identification, and enumeration of them, must be a matter of extreme difficulty. This difficulty is diminished almost in- finitely by the simple means of bringing the objects together, and placing them vis-b-vis to each other, so that they may most readily be compared and con- trasted. Such is the design, such the object, of the diagnostic arrangement of dis- eases. Diseases which are similar, are, of course, apt to be confounded; the diagnosis can only arise from careful comparison and contrast: this is most readily accomplished by arranging such diseases, as it were in parallel lines. It may frequently occur that the same disease, as inflammation and hys- teria, may, in their different forms, re- semble different diseases. In this case, the same disease cannot be placed in more than one part of the arrange- ment ; perfection of classification being made to give way to practical utility. The diagnosis and identification of diseases are, in this manner, greatly fa- cilitated. This effected, and not other- wise, our knowledge of the pathology becomes available. 249.—x. L—DISEASES OF THE SYSTEM. I.—Fevers. 1. Continued. The Complications. 2. Periodical. The Complications. IL—Eruptive Fevers. The Complications, III. — ]. Irritation. The Complications. 2. Exhaustion, The Complications. 3. Delirium Tremens. 4. Erethismus Mercurialis. IV. — 1. Acute Dyspepsia. 2. Chlorosis. 3. Hysteria. 4. Some Nervous Diseases. V. —Inflammation. 1. Simple. Its varied effects, 2. Modified. 1. Furun cuius. 2. Carbunculus, fyc. 3. Specific. 1. Rheumatic. 2. Arthritic. 3. Syphilitic, fyc. VL—Scrofula; Tubercles. VII.—ILemorrhagia. 1. From Constitutional Causes; 2. From Mechanical Causes: 1. Intra-vasated, or con- gestion. 2. Extra-vasated. 3. From the Skin;—Purpura. 4. From the Mucous Surfaces, or the Hemorrhages.