Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon, John M. Woodworth.

  • United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Nomenclature of diseases : prepared for the use of the medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service / by the supervising surgeon, John M. Woodworth. 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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    NOTE. TI7ITH the approval of the Honorable the Secretary of the Treasury, the Supervising Surgeon has adopted, and here- with presents, as the official nomenclature for the use of medical officers of the United States Marine-Hospital Service, the English-Latin terminology and the classification of the Nomen- clature of Diseases drawn up by a Joint Committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London, Eng. This action has been taken in the belief that the 'Provis- ional Nomenclature' forms the most promising basis, at least, for a standard and international nosonomy and classification— subject, as it is, to decennial revision, in which there is reason to expect the profession of this country will be represented, and being, in itself, the work of those ' who hold, or have held, the highest places as representative men in the Science of Med- icine,' among whom, as will be seen by the subjoined preface to the English edition, were the chiefs of the medical departments of the public services, thus ensuring the official recognition of the system throughout the British Empire. In this country—previous to this, its first official adoption— the classification of diseases in the Statistics of Mortality for the IXth Census of the United States was made, in all essential particulars, in accordance with it. It is, practically, adopted, through the medium of the American edition of Hhe represent- ative book' above quoted,^ by the Medical Department of the * Aitken's Science and Practice of Medicine.—Clymer. [V]