Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    medical profession appears to have been decidedly established. He prohibits his pupils from interfering with the practice of those artists, whose province it is to extract the stone from the bladder by manual dexterity; also, from the practice of midwifery, unless they have made that department of the profession a particular object of their studies. Among the Romans, surgery, as a dis- tinct art from medicine, appears to have sunk to a low ebb. There are good rea- sons to believe, that the physicians of ancient Rome entertained in their service a class of operating practitioners, who were in general emancipated slaves, or an artificial sleep, analagous to what is now termed Somnambulism; so that the performance of the operation was preceded by the exhibition of a hyp- notic.