Volume 1

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

  • Isaac Burney Yeo
Date:
1895
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Credit: A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what are termed rationed indications for treatment are arrived at. These indications are based on observed facts; they have no concern with dogmas of any kind Dogmatic medicine, no matter by what name it is known, is a thing of the past. It is wholly incon- sistent with scientific methods, and it would be an unjustifiable waste of time here to discuss it. It will continue to have an atti-action for certain minds, and that attraction will be found to be quite independent of the ordinary processes of reasoning, or the ordinary laws of evidence. It has been the Author's aim in the following pages, wherever it was possible, to deduce rational indications for treatment from an examination of the pathological nature and the clinical course and characters of the disease under discussion ; and if to discover and state such rational indications for treat- ment is all that is needed to render the practice of medicine scientific, then he ventures to hope that the study of the following pages will show, that the art of healing at the end of the nineteenth century is founded, to a very large extent, on a sound scientific basis. A work having so wide a scope has naturally occupied the Authoi-'s thoughts for some years, and many chapters are founded on clinical lectures, de- voted especially to the consideration of therapeutic questions, which it has been his duty, from time to time, to deliver in King's College Hospital.
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