On Diagnosis, in four parts : Part 1. The Phaenomena of health and disease. Part 2. The diagnosis of diseases of adults. Part 3. THe diagnosis of local diseases. Part 4. The diagnosis of diseases of children.

  • Hall, Marshall.
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1817
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    tions, of which the formation is slow and insidi- ous or of which the attack is sudden, and whose nature is either extremely dangerous or neces- sarily incurable. With the early symptoms of the former, and with the antecedent symptoms of the latter, it is of the first importance that the physician should be acquainted,—both with the view of giving a faithful prognosis, and of timely using every means comprised in the pro- phylaxis.* The last circumstance to be alluded to re- lative to Diagnosis, is the distinction in cases of a complicated nature. Considerable disease of the thorax may concur with considerable dis- ease in the abdomen, or several organs may be simultaneously affected in each or in both of these cavities ; &c. In such cases the History of the affection is to be carefully ascertained, and the peculiar combination and mutual influence of appearances and symptoms must be carefully examined, f But it is to be acknowledged that, in cases of great complication, the Diagnosis is frequently extremely obscure and dubious; and every physician is doomed to feel the pain of doubtfulness, and to submit to be often corrected in the course of his investigations in morbid anatomy. It is a matter of great moment in * See pp. 157, 16% 209, 274; &c. Pari the Second. + Sec ^ 17, 18; Part the First