The MedicoChiburgical Author:James Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND WINDPIPE. I. DISEASES OF THE CHEST. ? ?n?? i ist-: On The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Diseases Of The Chest. Part I. Diseases Of The Lung And Windpipe. By William Stokes, M. D. M. R. I. A., Duhlin. Hodges and Smith. On glancing at the first page of the Preface of this hook we were not a little gratified to find the author state that, in the composition of it, he has made it a principal ohject to connect the study of physical signe with that of symptoms, " so as to illustrate their mutual hearing on diagnosis, and remove that unjust opprohrium thrown on the advocates of auscultation, that they neglect the study of symptoms." That there may he some ground for this charge of a neglect of symptoms hy some persons professing themselves followers of the modern pathology, may he true. It requires some caution to avoid extremes. In endeavouring to steer clear of the Scylla of mere symptomatology on the one hand, some wrecks may have taken place hy striking against the Chaiyhdis of sheer physical semeiology on the other. Those, however, who make such a charge of neglect of symptoms against the educated followers of modern pathology, we refer to the writings of the Choryphaeus of modern pathology. Amiral. They will there find that rational symptomatology has heen any thing hut neglected. There the study of symptoms will he found to have received ample attention, and to have heen pursued with zealous care ; in that way, however, in which alone advantage could he rationally expected from it, namely, in connexion with physical signs, wherever this was possihle. The individuals, however, ...« less