A treatise on general pathology / by J. Henle ; translated from the German by Henry C. Preston.

  • Henle, Jacob, 1809-1885.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on general pathology / by J. Henle ; translated from the German by Henry C. Preston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A TREATISE GENERAL PATHOLOGY. INTRODUCTION. I. MEDICAL SYSTEMS. The duty of the Physician is to prevent and to cure diseases. Instinct, accident, and experience have taught us that certain extraneous influences, as they change the condition of the healthy body, can also become useful in restoring the diseased body to its normal state. The physician must diagnose the nature of the disease, and after that, define in particular, those external in- fluences which may become remedies. It has been a subject of long controversy to determine what law should guide him in this labor. Two systems contend for the superiority, which we must compare more carefully than has ever been done, and which we must separate more rigidly than has ever been possible in practice, in order to know the value of each, and to establish peace between the champions of both sides. The condition of the diseased, as of the healthy body, is shown by its effects, by certain external sensible phenomena, which are called symptoms. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of morbid symptoms is great, it can be readily perceived, that many of them return in certain connexions and successions, and by such an order of symp- toms it is empirically established, that they are caused al-