A dissertation on the importance of physical signs in the various diseases of the abdomen and thorax / by Robert W. Haxall.

  • Haxall, Robert W. (Robert William), 1802-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A dissertation on the importance of physical signs in the various diseases of the abdomen and thorax / by Robert W. Haxall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    The multiform mutations which have attached to medical practice, even since it has justly assumed for itself the appellation of a science, have no doubt contributed in a great measure to lessen the confidence ot ma), lightened mind in its utility and benefit. When-vr consider, however, the exceeding difficulty which attends our exam- ination into the true and infallible causes of just and rightful appreciation of remedial a; we reflect upon the absurd and even yet aversion to post mortem examinations, we should c wonder at the various changes which mere the«r opinion has hitherto advanced. Physiology, too, fin correct and proper knowledge of which we can alone at sure deductions in our pathological investigations, ha until at a comparatively recent date, established upon immu- table foundations many of its present and universally received principles ; and it may without exaggeration be said that the study of disease as cognizable by its functional signs or symptoms, was the only mode adopted until very recently,