Medical and physiological problems, being chiefly researches for correct principles of treatment in disputed points of medical practice / by William Griffin and by Daniel Griffin.

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1845
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    some years since, that it would be a most useful, practical and interesting study to collect causes with reference to all the most important of the disputed points in practice, and afterwards as a sufficient degree of personal experience happened to be attained on any one of them, to review the opinions of all the best authors on the subject, and endeavour to solve that most difficult question —What is the correct principle of treatment ? The following papers which my brother and I have contributed from time to time to the medical periodicals, are the results of these reflections. They are now collected for the convenience of easier reference, when it is an object to ascertain the value of opposing doctrines on the treatment of diseases yet unsettled. Some physiological problems have also been discussed, the interest of which may atone for their want of any very obvious practical value. The short essay on the application of mathematics to the science of medicine with which the collection concludes, could no where be perused with so much interest, as after the mind has been per- plexed by the surpassing difficulties of medical doctrines, displayed in the preceding pages. Amidst all the uncertainty of the sub- ject, it is consoling |to observe that a method is at length attract- ing the attention of every philosophic enquirer, which promises one day to give medicine a place among the more certain sciences.