The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uses jicrformed I)y the organs in the living body, such as the circiilatioii of the blood, sensation, digestion, respiration, vision, audition, gustation, olfaction, &c. What can be more in- teresting to our study and reflection than these functions, and more especially the intiuiate connexion between the intelligent principle and substance purely material, or, in other words, between mind and matter. 3. Pathology is the science of the nature of diseases or disorders of functions. It is divided into Nosology, Etiology, Symptomatology, and Semeiology or Semeotics. 4. Therapeutics, or the science of preventing or treating disorders and diseases. This comprises Hygiene, Materia Medica, and Botany, Pharmacy, Chemistry, Surgery, and Obstetricy. The study of State Medicine with Medical Jmisprudence is also required. The study of each of these branches is imperiously neces- sary to the medical practitioner; and no man, however in- genious or talented, can practise medicine, including all its branches, with satisfaction to himself or safety to the public, without a competent knowledge of the elemeiits of all the above sciences. Medicine is now defined the art of preventing and treating diseases; but formerly it was called the art of preserving health and curing diseases. The M'ord cure is not used at present, because we possess no remedy capable of effecting an immediate cure. There is a great difference between treat- ment and cure, as many diseases are incurable, but still are proper subjects of treatment. The institutions or principles of medicine are divided into three branches : — The first treats of life and health. The second embraces the general doctrine of diseases. The third comprises the general doctrine relative to the means of preventing and treating diseases. These three divisions are included in Physiology, Patho- logy, and Therapeutics.