An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners / by Thomas Young.

  • Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
Date:
1813
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    species of diseases: his genera, his orders, and his classes, are lamentably deficient in the essen- tial qualities of a logical and systematical method. Of this nothing can be a stronger proof than the numerous list of diseases, which, from the defec- tive constitution of his classes, he has been oblig- ed to insert in an appendix, having noplace in the system to which they could with propriety be re- ferred : an imperfection which not only implies a want of a clear view of the relations of the dis- eases immediately concerned, but a radical error in the fundamental divisions of the whole subject, which cannot have been established on natural grounds, while any part of it is thrown out of the general order, as if it had no connexion with the remainder. The inconsistencies of the specific with the generic, and of the generic with the clas- sical, characters of Dr. Cullen's Nosology, are so obvious and so numerous, as easily to be obseryed even by a superficial reader. It is true that we must not expect the same rigid accuracy in medicine, that may be obtained in some of the departments of natural history, since in fact many of the distinctions which are requir-