Clinical Treatise On Diseases Of The Liver

Author : Friedrich Theodor Frerichs
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ISBN 13 : 9781331081395
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Friedrich Theodor Frerichs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, Vol. 1 of 3 With the present Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, it is intended to commence a series of Works which shall contain the results of my clinical experience and pathological observations. The manner in which I propose to treat the subject, will appear from the works themselves; and it therefore seems needless to discuss this any more in detail at present; it is only necessary for me to make a few brief explanatory remarks. At the present day, it is agreed, that the science of life is undivided, and that no real defined limits exist between the varying phenomena of health and disease, but that both are governed by the same laws. We endeavor to investigate the conditions under which disease takes place in the same rigidly empirical manner, that we study the general vital processes of which disease is merely a fragmentary constituent. In addition to simple observation at the bedside of the patient, we have recourse to the assistance of physical, chemical, microscopical, and experimental modes of investigation, in order to collect materials for the construction of a scientific system of medicine. There can be no doubt that a great advance has been made by this mode of research, which, although not novel, has at no time been adopted to the same extent, and with such ample means at our disposal, or attended by equally important results, as during the last ten years. Our general views of disease have been simplified since we have ceased to disconnect it from the phenomena of life, as something foreign and endowed with a peculiar and individual existence; while the several pathological processes have been rendered more intelligible, since they have been referred back to their physiological origin, and since their fundamental structural lesions have been carefully and thoroughly examined. The volume of the work now presented to the public furnishes ample stores of individual facts, difficult to understand and arrange, and still more difficult to turn to practical account. It is a characteristic of human nature to exhibit partialities, and to elaborate and make use of sometimes one, and sometimes another mode of investigation in preference to any other: "Suo quisque studio delectatus alterum contemnit;" but no permanent injury results from this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.