The principles of diagnosis / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1834
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    the same time. There is, in my opinion, no single fact in physic of equal importance and value, in the diagnosis of acute diseases and the use of an important remedy. 7. But it must be acknowledged that it is to the study of morbid anatomy that we are princi- pally indebted for the recent progress, and, in- deed, for almost all that is solid in medical science. It is by the investigation of morbid anatomy that we are principally enabled to esta- blish correct species of disease ; but it is equally true, that all the advantages which spring from our knowledge of changes of structure, must flow through that of the history and symptoms, as the channel to our individual patients. The pro- gress of medicine as a science—might we not say, as an abstract science *?—may be considered as greatly dependent on that of our knowledge of morbid anatomy; but the advancement of physic, as a practical art, is intimately linked with our knowledge of the history, symptoms, and the effects of remedies—with the diagnosis of the disease in the living patient. 8. The Sources of Diagnosis may be arranged in the following manner : I. The History. II. The Symptoms, or Changes of Function. III. The Effects of Remedies. IV. The Morbid Anatomy, or Changes of Structure. b 2