Syllabus of the course of lectures on medical logic, delivered in the University of Aberdeen / by Francis Ogden.

  • Francis Ogston
Date:
1860
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    ’ Subordinate character of the conclusions arrived at in the Physiological, Moral, Social, and Political Sciences, as com- [ ■ pared with those established in the more advanced of the [ Physical Sciences. A like elevation presumably attainable : in the Science of Man generally, as in the Physical Sciences, by following the same path of advance. Departments of our own Science in which satisfactory progress has already been made. Departments of it in which our deficiencies are most conspicuous. How far these deficiencies are traceable to the : neglect of the improved methods of modern Science, and to ‘ what extent we may overcome them by the systematic adop- I tion of better methods. Sources from whence the positions i recently attained by us, in Medicine, have been derived : , traceable mainly to improvements in the auxiliary Sciences. Late advances in Descriptive Anatomy, Histology, Experi- I mental Physiology, Organic Chemistry, and Comparative 1 ^Anatomy. Actual gains to practical Medicine from these ' varied sources. Farther advances which may yet be reason- f ably expected from these quarters. Facilities now offered ! for the reduction of phenomena and processes formerly only admitting of being studied in their aggregates. Use which ■may be made of such single instances as are to be occasion¬ ally encountered in Medicine : Illustrations from various de¬ partments of the Science. Eecourse which may be had to the process of breaking up complex, in the failure of simple instances. This process exemplified in the establishment of the Compound radicles of Organic Chemistry. The applica¬ tion of the process in Medicine. Arbitrary character and little value of most of our groups. Examples of the faulty grouping of diseases, and of the sort of arguments on which tbeir defence is rested. Proposed substitution of Natural, in place of arbitrary groups.^ Claims of the so-called Diatheses of modern Pathologists to this distinction examined. Con¬ cluding cautions. LEGTUEE XXVII. I I Fallacies.—priori fallacies. Preliminary remarks. The more restricted meaning of the term fallacy, as employed by