Clinical lectures on diseases of the nervous system : delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London / by W.R. Gowers.

  • Gowers, W. R. (William Richard), 1845-1915.
Date:
1895
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    ON ; Diseases of the Nervous System LECTURE I. SOME GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. Gentlemen:—If we look back over the progress of medical science, three epochs of discovery stand out in special salience, contrasting, in the steepness of the rise in know- ledge they present, with the more gradual progress of other branches and of the same subjects at other times. These are, first, the revolution in the conception of diseases of the heart and circulation which Harvey's great discovery entailed; secondly, the penetrating extension of knowledge of all the thoracic diseases which was effected by the invention of the methods of auscultation and percussion, and the discoveries which followed that invention ; and, thirdly, the enormous advance in our knowledge of the nervous system and its diseases which the last quarter of a century has witnessed. This has been largely due to the development of microscopical research, in some degree to Post-graduate Lecture, Lancet, Feb. 20, 1892.