Manual of pathology, containing the symptoms, diagnosis and morbid characters of diseases : together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the head, chest and abdomen / Translated with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Manual of pathology, containing the symptoms, diagnosis and morbid characters of diseases : together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the head, chest and abdomen / Translated with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rect or incomplete. This is not done for the purpose of supplying their deficiences, or correcting their errors, 'out, in order to guard against any erroneous impres- sions they may have left on the mind,—impressions which, in too many instances, have exerted an inju- rious influence on the whole course of men's profes- sional career. 15. Correctness and discrimination are qualities in- dispensibly necessary for a physician ; and these he can only acquire by constant exercise and observation, which will so sharpen his senses and faculties, that he wil seldom fail to seize and appreciate symptoms and phe- nomena, which escape the notice of others. But it is not sufficient that the senses should be thus exercised, as we know that there are many minute circumstances that will escape them ; hence the necessity of assisting them by certain auxiliaries. Thus it is that certain alterations of structure, which are not perceptible by the naked eye, are rendered manifest by a lens or a microscope ; and a virus, which cannot be detected by our senses, or even by chemical tests, becomes evident by inoculation. 16. Each of our senses being adapted for special pur- poses, all of them are made to render important ser- vice to medical inquiries, and ought to be employed concurrently in conducting them. Percussion, and still more auscultation, have clearly shewn the great value of one sense, that hitherto was seldom directed to this sort of investigation ; in a word, by the eye we can dis- tinguish small-pox from cow- pock ; by the ear, ascites from tympanites ; by the smell, gangrene of the lung from phthisis; by the taste, diabetes melitus, from simple phthisuria ; by the touch, aneurism from vari- ous other tumours. 17. The observer should possess penetration, not subtlety; sagacity, to follow the thread of a narration too often obscure; discernment, to overcome the ob- stacles which false modesty or want of candour may throw in his way; a sober judgment, to form just