On the logical applications of physiology to pathology : an introductory lecture to the course on the principles and practice of medicine, delivered October 1, 1849 / by Walter H. Walshe.

  • Walshe, Walter Hayle, 1812-1892.
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1849
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    A LECTURE. Gentlemen,—On the occasion of appearing before you for the first time, as your instructor in the Theory and Practice of Medicine, it would seem not only natural, hut almost imperative, that I should explain to you the views which I entertain of the just and appropriate basis of that theory and that practice. It would, for several reasons, have been well, could I have entered fully into an explanation of the kind; and, forced as I am by limitation of time to relinquish the idea of even an attempt at a complete exposition of the subject, I will still endeavour, at least, to touch upon some fair share of its more prominent points. It will be thus practicable for me to give you, inferentially, an insight into the character of the evidence, and into the mode of using that evidence (especially when derived from certain collateral sciences) which I am disposed to believe essential to the solid establishment of the Science of Pathology, or General Doc- trine of Disease. § II. Placed conspicuously before you are four Tablets, on which are inscribed the fundamental plans, by which, in the sequence adopted, the science of Pathology is, I conceive, to be directly and immediately formed* I. CASES OF DISEASE SUBMITTED TO OBSERVATION, LEAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF Individual Pathological Phenomena. II. INDIVIDUAL PATHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA SUBMITTED TO INTERPRETATION, LEAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT (PROVISIONALLY) OF THE Nexuses of those Phenomena. III. TnESE PROVISIONALLY ESTABLISHED NEXUSES, SUBMITTED TO NUMERICAL COMPARISON, ARE JUDGED, AND SO LEAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE General Laws of Diseases.