Medical Diagnosis

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Excerpt from Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine, A Guide to the Knowledge and Discrimination of DiseasesWhen, by means of the aided or unaided senses, the symptoms of the malady have been discovered, the next step towards a diag nosis is a proper appreciation of their significance and of their rela tion towards one another. Knowledge and, above all, the exercise of the reasoning faculties are now indispensable. The daily habit of investigating disease, a scrutinizing Study -of the anatomical lesions, chemistry, with its most searching analyses, the microscope, with the wonders it reveals, are all of little use, unless we have been taught the necessity of placing in connection with one'another the morbid signs they lay bare, and of considering in individual cases their respective value. Were it otherwise, the science of diagnosis would be simply a matter of memory. It is, however, this very analysis of symptoms and the lengthy process of induction attending it which make medical diagnosis so difficult. Nor is it reasoning on the ascertained facts alone that is required, the premises may be but probabilities, for, in truth, diagnosis deals at times with the logic of probabilities as much as with the logic of patent facts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.