Volume 3

Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory.

  • George Gregory
Date:
1823
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    of former authors; but it is not in this way that the value of any new suggestion can be ascertained, or the state of medical practice at any one period justly appreciated. ‘To form an estimate of either it is necessary to look to the great body of pathology, and it is here that we shall find those improvements which modern medicine may boast. Nor must it be supposed, that improvements in pathology are neces- sarily followed by corresponding changes in the methods of treating disease. These, it has long been observed, have continued nearly the same through every variety of pathological doctrine. _It is enough to say, that the powers of medicines do not necessarily keep pace with the powers of the human mind, in investigating the causes and tracing the relations of diseases. In this work, the main object of the Author has been to unite general views of disease with the detai! of symptoms and treatment. He has rather gone into greater length into the former department, because the works commonly in the hands of medica] students do not, to the best of his knowledge, contain any exposition of those leading pathological doctrines which it is his object to inculcate, and which he be- lieves to be essential to the successful treatment of