Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan.

  • Egan, John C.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYPHILITIC DISEASES, THEIB PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TEEATMENT. SECTION I. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. If, in ordinary scientific researches, it be considered necessary, previous to entering upon the elucidation of a given subject, to afford a clear definition of the terms employed in designating the object under consideration ; it is, I conceive, infinitely more incumbent on the author who ventures upon the description or treatment of disease, to state, beyond the possibility of doubt or cavil, the signification which he proposes affixing to the different affections of which he purposes to treat. But, unfortunately for the advancement of medical science, disputes, misunderstandings, and misinter- pretations, have been severally the lot of the very names adopted to denote the characters of disease ; symptoms have been multiplied, ideas mystified, and the patient investigator after truth retires from the scene of laborious research, with a mind enriched with a copious vocabulary, burdened with B