The influence of sex in disease / by W. Roger Williams.

  • Williams, W. Roger (William Roger)
Date:
1885
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Credit: The influence of sex in disease / by W. Roger Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. I HAVE here brought together, and given definite expression to, a large number of facts concerning the influence of sex in disease. * Many of these facts previously existed in what may be called the amorphous state ; others are now given for the first time. In the opening remarks I have introduced a brief general survey of the subject. As a rule, the tables speak for themselves, but in many instances some comment seemed necessary. This work would have been impossible but for the valuable statistical reports published by the various Hospitals herein named. I am convinced that this method of inves- tigating disease—which, after its author, may be called the Hippocratic method—is of real importance. When I consider the great advances recently made in biological science, and the methods by which they have been attained ; and when I compare them with what is now being done by modern pathology, I am amazed at the attitude of the latter, which, in its blind pursuit of isolated facts in ultimate analysis, to the exclusion of all others, obstinately ignores the brilliant example to which I have alluded, so largely due to the labours of our illustrious countrymen. W. Roger Williams. LoNDOxM : Novembery 1885.