On local asphyxia and symmetrical gangrene of the extremities / by Maurice Raynaud ; translated by Thomas Barlow.

  • Raynaud, Maurice R., 1834-1881.
Date:
1888
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Credit: On local asphyxia and symmetrical gangrene of the extremities / by Maurice Raynaud ; translated by Thomas Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X PREFACE. healtli has become altérée! up to tbis point, by wliat sequence of phenomena the malady once constituted migbt pass over into conditions still more grave. Tliis is, in fact, diagnosis and prognosis, that is to say, more than the lialf of medicine. But if we were bound to restrict ourselves to tbis rigorous order, medical language would be no longer possible, and it would be necessary to wait iiidefinitely until science should be constituted in ail points. The best thing is, as a new variety offers itself for observation, to give it some name in accordance with the most striking characters, waiting for a future synthesis to suppress these provisional landmarks. This is what I hâve decided to do, not without some répugnance. I hâve yielded to the natural instinct which leads us to seek under the brute facts for the interprétation which is most satisfy- ing to the mind. It is hardly necessary to add that, if the future should demonstrate the falsity of my explanations, I hope that I should hâve enough enlightenment and sincerity not to attach any further importance to theoretical views inevitably more or less incomplète. It always obtains that facts are facts, and that there can be nothing but advantage in grouping them together into a picture.
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