A manual of pathological anatomy (Volume 1-2).

  • Carl von Rokitansky
Date:
1855
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    him and to his work the acknowledgment and admiration of future ages. In England many have, up to our own day, worked in a similar spirit. Amongst these, we may mention the names of Abernethy, Charles Bell, Astley Cooper, Hodgson, Farre, Wardrop, Howship, Baron, Hodgkin, Hope. In Italy, on the contrary, and in Germany—if we except the impulse so decisively given in the same direction by the ingenious Reil—patho- logical anatomy has been upon the whole less cultivated, and has exer- cised less influence upon medicine. Accordingly, Germany and Italy have but few men to place in parallel with those of France; few to add to the names of Scarpa, Malacarne, Paletta—of J. F. Meckel, Otto, and (in industry and method, the essentially German) Lobstein. It was reserved for Germany, at the present day, to establish a pathological anatomy and a method of working it out, partly indepen- dent, partly framed according to the best models of France. Under the auspices of German universality and analysis, this renovated science, emancipated alike from the systems of a bygone age and from a vain eclecticism, has begun to incorporate itself with pathology in a way that promises both durability and brilliant progress, more especially in its natural alliance with German physiology, and under a consistent and rational standard of pathological chemistry. Classification.—Just as there is a general and a special anatomy, physiology, pathology, so there must in like manner be a general and a special pathological anatomy. The former treats of general anomalies of organization, the latter of the special anomalies of individual tex- tures and organs. All anomalies of organization involving any anatomical change manifest themselves as deviations in the quantity or quality of organic creation, or else as a mechanical separation of continuity. They are reducible to irregular number [deficient or excessive formation], irre- gular size, form, position, connection, color, consistence, continuity, texture, and contents. They relate to the physical properties of the animal body and of its organs. The chemical properties, although not strictly pertaining to the field of anatomy, are too intimately connected with the physical, to be suffered to remain in the background at the present day. The animal fluids bear a similar relation to anatomy. Their anomalies will be taken into account, so far as it may appear needful, under the appropriate heads. Those of the sanguineous fluid will, however, demand a separate chapter. This will come in at the conclusion of the general anatomy, in which a frequent reference to them will have previously demonstrated the indispensable nature of the inquiry, as a sort of connecting link between general and special anatomy. We shall thus have to discuss, in ten separate chapters, the anomalies of organization. There are, however, a few general points which require some previous explanation.
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