A physiological system of nosology : with a corrected and simplified nomenclature.

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827.
Date:
1817
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    PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. The following work was commenced, and its general out- line laid down as early as the year 1803, though the pres- sure of professional and other engagements has prevented its completion till now. The interval, however, has not been entirely thrown away, for the author has endeavoured to keep his eye open to every publication or hint that has since appeared on the subject, or has had any connection with it, and has availed himself of whatever lie has found most valuable or interesting. The main object of the present attempt is not so much to interfere with any existing system of nosology as to fill up a niche that still seems unoccupied in the great gallery of phvsiological study. It is that, if it could be accom- plished, of connecting the science of diseases more closely with the sister branches of natural knowledge; of giving it a more assimilated and family character ; a more obvi- ous and intelligible classification ; an arrangement more simple in its principle, but more comprehensive in its compass; of correcting its nomenclature, where correction is called for, and can be accomplished without coercion ; of following its distinctive terms as well upwards to their original sources, as downwards to their svnonvms in the chief languages of the present day; and thus, not merely of producing a manual for the student, or a text-book for the lecturer, but a book that may stand on the same shelf with, and form a sort of appendix to, our most popular svstems of natural history : and mav at the same time be perused by the classical scholar without disgust at that barbarous jargon, with which the language of medicine is so perpetually tesselated; and which every one has com-