Therapeutics of the circulation / by Sir Lauder Brunton.

  • Lauder Brunton
Date:
1914
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Credit: Therapeutics of the circulation / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    maker ; because you know nothing of the way in which watches are built, of the disorders to which they are liable, or the way in which to put- them right. In the same way, before you can put anything right which has gone wrong with the circulation, you must know something about— (1) Its normal working, or physiology ; (2) The disorders to which it is liable, or pathology; (3) The means by which we can act upon it, or pharmacology ; (4) The indications by which we recognise the particular disorder, or semeiology ; and (5) The methods of applying our remedies to the disorders which we have already recognised, or therapeutics. It is evident that, before we can deal with therapeutics satisfactorily, we must take up, to a certain extent, the other subjects upon which it depends; and although you have studied them all to a certain extent already, I think it will be advisable to go shortly over them, more especially as I shall have to take them in definite relation to their practical use, instead of merely considering them as scientific subjects unconnected, possibly, with practical medicine. But the treatment of these must necessarily be very brief, because the subject-matter to be con¬ sidered is very great. Harvey’s Discovery.—There is, perhaps, no discovery, either ancient or modern, which has had such a far-reaching influence on the health of human beings as the discovery of the circula-
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