Notes of lectures on the American practice of medicine : delivered in the American Medical College at Cincinnati, O. / by S. Hollister Potter.

  • Potter, S. Hollister.
Date:
1855
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    ally considered, and forms the subordinate branch of patho- logical science. 3.—Symptomatology, which points out the mode by which diseases may be recognised, one distinguished from another, and the whole course of each traced to its probable termina* tion. It is the exploration of disease, and a branch of gen- eral pathology. 4.—General Therapeutics, which defines and points out the general principles of treating disease. 5.—Hygiene will be most conveniently treated of in con- nection with individual cases. CHAPTEK I. CONSTITUENT FORMS OF DISEASE. Diseases, at the first glance, appear to be very numerous and diversified, but, subjected to a strict analysis, they are found to consist comparatively of a few states of derange- ment, by the combination of which, in various forms, in re- lation to number, situation and degree, their great apparent diversity is produced. Great efforts have been made to ascertain the essential el- ements of disease, without very flattering success, because we have not yet learned the precise nature of healthy actions, and cannot, therefore, understand their derangements. We are however able to appreciate to a great extent the proxi- mate ingredients of those numerous associations of morbid conditions or actions called diseases. That all diseases have their seat in the fluids or solids of the body, or both, must be admitted as a self-evident proposition.