The principles of diagnosis / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1834
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    THE MORBID ANATOMY. 616. Nothing has contributed so much to establish the validity of the History, Symptoms, and the RJfects of Remedies, as signs of disease,— to raise Medicine from its condition of a conjee- tural Art, to the rank of a Science, as the investi- gations into the Morbid Anatomy. 617. The presence of morbid changes of struc- ture affords the evidence of previous morbid actions; their absence affords the proof that such morbid actions have not existed. 618. I would observe, however, that the mere student of Morbid Anatomy is not a good practi- cal physician. There is so much to be considered in the condition of the general system, in the sympathies with the organ, or organs, principally o