Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan].

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that bear a strong analogy to each other, in as far as the subject of both is the living body, have been separated to the real advantage of either department, — is a question, which it is not my present purpose to discuss. Permit me also to observe, that during a state of society when mankind sustained themselves on simple food, as the ancient Romans, who lived chiefly upon boiled barley, and were comparatively little ac- quainted with the art of producing: fer- mented drinks, and passed. their time chiefly in active exercises in the open air, constitutional diseases: were probably of ‘rare occurrence; and when they did occur, though of a simple nature, appear to have been little understood, being attributed to the malignant aspects of the planets, or to,