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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    be discarded—to whom shall we apply for a more accurate designation—to Clutterbuck, or Armstrong, or Broussais? Hypochondri- asis is a lumbering inconvenient word, but yet we are obliged to use it; for although the morbid state which it implies is allowed to be merely a consequence of fifty different derangements of structure, or of function, yet it is necessarily conjoined with, and ex- clusively consequent upon, no one of them: and nearly the same may be said of some forms of dropsy. Again, rheumatism, though evident and familiar to every one, is a very difficult disease to fix down by an exact pathological definition. In exanthematous complaints, although there is morbid ana- tomy enough during their progress—as in erysipelas, variola, rubeola, scarlatina, &c.— yet there is frequently no trace left, and it would not be easy to determine at what pre- cise period of their career such sweeping affections should receive their designation. With regard to syphilis, scrofula, and ma- lignant diseases, many of the phenomena which attract the senses are merely conse-