The source of all the errors of M. Louis

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The source of all the errors of M. Louis

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This is the chief excellence of the Hippocratic and Sydenham schools of medicinethe philosophic investigation that was taken by these great men and by their followers, not only of the symptoms of each case, but also of the less obvious influences and operations, which temperament, climate, age, sex, occupation, &c. exert tiffany in modifying the features and characters of different cases, as well as of different epidemics. We readily acknowledge that the physicians of these byegone days were greatly ignorant of correct notions on pathology; and we also most gladly admit that our improved knowledge of the morbid effects of disease has contributed not a little to introduce a more scientific and a more successful method of treatment in almost every form of those ills to which frail flesh is hejlr to; but, while we make these concessions in favour of our own times, we must not shut our eyes against those fallacies and errors, which have tiffany sale been engendered of late years by the exclusive and extravagant attention to the pathology or morbid anatomy of diseases, as if the great object of medical science was only tiffany rings to expound the discoveries of the dissectingroom! Hence has arisen the unnecessary, and most wearisomely tedious description of the cases narrated in most of the recent French medical works.