Medicine an art, and its truth to be attained. Being an address ... at the opening meeting of the "Library of the Exeter Dispensary", and the "Devon and Exeter Pathological Society" / [Thomas Shapter].

  • Thomas Shapter
Date:
1848
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Credit: Medicine an art, and its truth to be attained. Being an address ... at the opening meeting of the "Library of the Exeter Dispensary", and the "Devon and Exeter Pathological Society" / [Thomas Shapter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Introduction, p. 1.—Library, p. 1.—Pathological Society, p. 2.—Me¬ dicine an Art, p. 2.—Fallacies, p. 10. I. Medicine conjectural, p. 10.—Disease defined, p. 11.—Remedies and their application, p. 12.—Conjecture appreciated, p. 13. II. Medicine solely dependent on experience, p. 14.—Fact and theory defined, p. 16.—Experience defined, p. 19.—Its value stated, p. 19. —Errors, p. 20.—Medicine without principles, p. 20.—Of no avail, p. 21.—Numerical mode, p. 21.—Symptoms solely depended on, p. 21.—Morbid anatomy, p. 22.—Pathological conditions of disease ill-defined, p. 22. The Art of Medicine, how to be appreciated, p. 23.—The induc¬ tive process applied, p. 23.—Hypothesis, p. 24.—Truth in Medicine to be attained, p. 26.—Examples, p. 26. Conclusion, p. 30.
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