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

  • 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, published according to their request, / by Alex P. Buchan ; to which are added, tables of symptoms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ledge of their nature; which, let it be ob* served, are, like all the other faculties of man, capable of being improved. We should endeavour to acquire the tactus eruditus, the visus eruditus, and now that it is found practicable to detect affections of the lungs by sounds produced by striking upon the thorax, also the auditus eruditus. But, after all, our knowledge of disease is rather drawn from inference than evidence; the phenomena, from which we are obliged to form our opinion, being altogether distinct from the causes in which they originate. Hence may be explained the reason why the testimony of medical men often appears so unsatis- factory, and even absurd, when adduced in courts of law, where direct evidence alone is admissible. But the capacity of discerning the na-