A digest of the principles and practice of medicine : with a short account of the history of medicine, and tables of Indian materia medica / by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory.

  • Khory Rustomjee Naserwanjee.
Date:
1879
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Credit: A digest of the principles and practice of medicine : with a short account of the history of medicine, and tables of Indian materia medica / by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The account of the various diseases follows, and occupies the greater part of the book. Each disease is first defined. Its causes, pathology, morbid anatomy, symptoms, diagnosis, prog- nosis, and treatment are described seriatim. This, with a slight modification, is the order of the medicEval writers on medicine. Serapyon, Rhazes, and Avycen, Averrois, Damascien, and Constantyn, Bernard, and Gatesden, and Gilbertyn. Their pages are seldom turned over now, their method was not favorable to the discovery of scientific facts, but they lived in an age in which scholasticism had brought formula to the highest perfection, and I hope that the uniform order which 1 have adopted from them may prove as useful to the modern student as it doubtless was to the subtle disputants of Salernuni and of Montpellier. In other respects I have in the main followed the beaten track, except that I have more often than is usual resorted to tables for the purpose of clear exposition of resemblances, differences, and details, and that I have introduced a short account of insanity under diseases of the brain, and a short abstract of toxicology among diseases of the stomach. Hippocrates has a treatise on ancient medicine, and I have felt that a short account of the growth of the observations and hypotheses which my book contains was the most fitting conclusion to it, and I have accordingly printed a letter which a Fellow of the College had written to me on the subject. Modern investigations have, it is true, shown that our Susruta is no native Indian, but Hippocrates himself, and that the Eastern learning, as regards medicine, is a reflection of the scientific brilliancy which so early appeared in the West. If, however, India cannot claim the origin of medicine, her