Volume 1

A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo.

  • Isaac Burney Yeo
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The object of this work is the study of disease from the point of view of treatment. The teaching of Therapeutics is here approached from the side of the disease, and not from the side of the drug or remedy —a method which has been thought more natural and more interesting than the one usually adopted. It has not, however, been attempted to discuss questions of treatment apart from considerations of the clinical history, course, and pathological characters of each disease. It is clear that any, or every part, of the natural history of a disease may bear, directly or indirectly, on its treatment, but some parts far more than others; and it would be most unphilosophical and unedifying to discuss the therapeutics of a disease without, at the same time, considering the true nature of the phenomena we are endeavouring to control. It is by examining into the mode of causation of disease, by investigating the true nature of the morbid changes which underlie the phenomena of disease, and by an exact knowledge of the properties and mode of action of the agencies we introduce for the purpose of influencing favourably its course, that
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