A lecture introductory to the course on the principles and practice of medicine, delivered at the Aldersgate Street School of Medicine, 1839-40; to which is appended a syllabus of the course / by Robert Willis.

  • Robert Willis
Date:
1839
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Credit: A lecture introductory to the course on the principles and practice of medicine, delivered at the Aldersgate Street School of Medicine, 1839-40; to which is appended a syllabus of the course / by Robert Willis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 have become combined with oxygen within the body and there formed carbonic acid. Nothing seems more natural than that the various diseases to which these different natural systems of organs are liable, should be considered in connexion with them one after another; they will, 1 believe, be found to form as natural a series, in reference to each set of organs, as any that can be devised or pointed out even in the best of the artificial arrange- ments entitled Methodical Nosologies. The science of medicine, too, is, must necessarily be, most posi- tive as regards the diseases of these great systems, so that the study of them appears to be the best introduction, the most proper means of gaining access to the innermost recesses of the temple of medical science. The important doctrines of General Pathology, all bear reference immediately to de- rangements of these systems, and, taken along with them individually, they lose the character of abstraction, that renders them tedious and re- butting. But all the diseases to which the human body is obnoxious, are not immediately referable to any one in particular of the great physiological systems of organs that have been enumerated ; there are dis- eases which have not their seat especially in the chylopoetic, or sanguiferous, or nervous or excernent system ; diseases in which these all suffer indeed, but as it would seem by sympathy, and as parts of a whole, not in consequence of peculiar derange- ment in any one of them. Diseases of this descrip- tion are usually spoken of as general diseases, and may be disposed not only without violence but even naturally into no greater a number of classes than two. The first of these classes would include dis- eases that arise in the body generally, from the faulty
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