Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a class of diseases not generally con- sidered as pertaining to his province, as the discharges of blood originating from a solution of continuity of the coats of the internal blood vessels have been arranged by nosologists among the fluxes or pro- fluviae, the treatment of which has in general been considered as belonging to the province of the physician. But as the use of the lancet can rarely be dispensed with in cases of active haemorrhage, the point may be compromised by admitting the propriety of combining the science and skill of both branches of the profes- sion in cases where their united efforts are frequently required to subdue disease and preserve life. My object, in thus attempting to mark the limits of the different branches into which the medical profession has been