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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    ture of disease varies widely in different individuals^ Quicquid recipitur, re- cipitur modo recipientis. I have known instances of medical men, who even after long-continued experience could never clearly ascertain the nature and distinc- tion of diseases, nor even put questions pertinent to their investigation; while others, as was said of the celebrated Fo- thergill, appear to possess an almost in- tuitive perception of the state of their pa- tients. The possession or the absence of this faculty constitutes, in fact, the main difference between one medical practi- tioner and another. What Lord Bacon says of love seems applicable to dis- ease : Love, says he, is not mani- fested by staring in the face, but is com- municated by slight glances, and sudden quick sparkles of the eye.