A letter to the Registrar-General on the increase in cancer in England and its cause / by John Francis Churchill.

  • Churchill, J. Francis (John Francis)
Date:
1888
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Credit: A letter to the Registrar-General on the increase in cancer in England and its cause / by John Francis Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    even the first class, but the greater part will probably be laid aside. The Stcechiological Method. My doctrine of Stoechiology differs from current and generally received opinions, not only as a new conception of disease and as a new classification of remedial agents, but likewise in its method and in its practical use of them. It holds that all remedial action is conditional, and that no substance can claim to be a remedy, until two kinds of facts concerning it have been fully ascertained by experiment or observation. First, we require to know all the different phases and stages of its action on the system, and the different successive physiogenic and pathogenic effects it produces: the former term comprehending all normal phenomena, all increase or decrease of the functions within their normal limits ; the latter com- prising all manifestations of new or abnormal effects. Second, when once these different physiogenic and pathogenic manifestations, produced in the system by any substance, have been recognized, determined, and classed in the order of their natural sequence, the next requirement is to find out to what phase or stage of this sequence the remedial or curative action of the remedy corresponds. This supplies what has hitherto been altogether wanting in Medicine—a general principle which gives