Chemistry and physics in relation to physiology and pathology / by Baron Justus Liebig.

  • Justus von Liebig
Date:
1846
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Credit: Chemistry and physics in relation to physiology and pathology / by Baron Justus Liebig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hensibility. This is one of the greatest impedi- ments that stands in the way of the application of chemistry to psychology, and of a simple consideration of chemical discoveries on the part of many physiologists ; and if to this be associated, as in pathology, the assumption of facts on experience, the correctness of which has no other foundation than the opinion of many centuries, and if, in these branches of science, the mode of arriving at conclusions and deductions be not changed, there is no hope as yet, that chemistry, with all her advances, will ever be able to render any essential aid to physiology and pathology ; while it is alike impossible for either of these sciences to attain to any scientific basis, without the co-operation of chemistry and physics. While no one doubts the necessity of this co-operation, there is little unity of sentiment regarding its practical application. PHVSIOLOGV AS A DEDUCTIVE SCIENCE. The opinion that every empirical science, in- cluding physiology, may in the course of time acquire the character of a deductive science seems to require no confirmation ; and it must be imma- terial whether this position be attained by borrowing from other sciences : as for instance, in the case of astronomy, which owes its scientific basis to Its partial incorporation with the theory af motion.