Idiosyncrasies / by Sir Humphry Rolleston.

  • Humphry Rolleston
Date:
1927
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Credit: Idiosyncrasies / by Sir Humphry Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Physiological idiosyncrasies, or abnormal reactions in otherwise average, that is normal, persons, are of practical import¬ ance in medicine. Their occurrence, though not very common, makes it difficult to elevate medicine to the status of an exact science like mathematics. Laboratory methods have done so much for the advance of medical science because the conditions can be so carefully con¬ trolled as to be made simple and cleanly cut as compared with those in the sick man. But just for this reason the subject of idiosyncrasies deserves consideration, for they help to explain why patients do not always react with the uniformity of laboratory animals. Experiments made with the object of determining the action of a drug, cannot take into consideration the inborn or acquired susceptibilities known as idiosyncrasies which in the human subject
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