Modern medicine influenced by morbid anatomy : an oration delivered at the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Medical Society of London. Also, an apology for medical nomenclature / by Leonard Stewart.

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1830
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    MODERN MEDICINE INFLUENCED BY MORBID ANATOMY. All rational medicine is founded upon the observation of a certain constancy and iden- tity in diseased conditions—on the frequent recurrence of a series of morbid phenomena which have been before noticed ; for, if there were no such repetition—no such analogy to be traced—our acquaintance with disease would be continually beginning and ending with each individual case ; there could be no general or systematic rules by which to guide our opinion or our conduct—no per- manent circumstance to connect the present with the past and the future; all pathology