An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners / by Thomas Young.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1813
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    the continuance of the disease: in contradis- tinction to anatomical nosology, on the one side, and on the other to mere metaphysical or theore-r tica] distinctions, and to enumerations of symptoms accidentally connected, or of causes, capable of endless variation and combination. Of Dr. Cullen's classes, I have been able to retain only two without much deviation from their general character, the Neuroses, to which I have given the more appropriate denomination Para- neurismi, or Nervous diseases, and the Pyrexiae, which nearly correspond' to my Parhaemasiae, or Sanguine diseases, an appellation under which I have included an order of inflammations and haemorrhages without fever. The Cachexiae of Cullen appear to me to be incapable of a correct deBnition, and the Locales to be wholly undis- tinguishable, by any sufficient criterion, from ge- neral diseases. Most of the genera contained in these classes, I have distributed among the Se- cretory and Structural diseases, which I have en- titled Pareccrises and Paramorphiae; a few others, together with the greater number of sur- gical, and all obstetrical diseases, constitute my