An illustrated reportory of pains in chest, sides and back : their direction and character, confirmed by clinical cases.

  • Gregg, Rollin R.
Date:
1879
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Credit: An illustrated reportory of pains in chest, sides and back : their direction and character, confirmed by clinical cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    .A-isr Illustrated Repertory. INTRODUCTION. All know how greatly the study of anatomy, surgery, midwifery, and even of physiology, has been facilitated by means of figures and plates of the various parts and organs of the human body, and also of many of the natural operations transpiring within, or of the artificial operations performed upon it. Then why not make use of this same great aid in Therapeutics, where the knowledge which may be obtained thereby would be so much more important, because of so much more general use ? The only question is, can such a work be properly done ? This question we trust we shall be able to answer. In this work is given the development of my plan for representing to the eye the pathogenetic symptoms of drugs, in a manner which furnishes, at the same view, the indica- tions for their administration in disease. In other words an Illustrated Repertory, whereby we shall all be enabled to bring the powerful aid of the sight to the assistance of the other fac- ulties, in determining by the locality, and the kind of symp- toms, together with their direction and extent,—in all instances where they have these qualities,—that drug which is surely indicated in each individual case; and this with- out the necessity of that long and tedious search through