Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson.

Date:
1806
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Credit: Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Vlir.—Of the .lewiili Ph\-ficiuns, - - - 114 IX.—Of the liril Sc6l of Chemical Phyficians, 119 X.—Revival of Learning and the Hippocratic SVftem of Medicine, - - - 124 XT.—Of Stahl and Van Helmont, - - 132 XU. —Of Sydenham, _ - - _ _ 145 xm.—Dif( rovery of the Circulation of the Blood 150 XiV.—Of Idoerhaave, - - - - - 154 XV. —Of Hoffmann and Baglivi; of tire new Solidilfs of Edinburgh; and of the School of IMontpellier, - - - 158 XVI.—Of the prefent State of Medical Educa- tion, 1G2 CHAP. IH. General Viezos on the SuhjeS of Medical Edu- cation, - - - - 170 Sect. I.^—Of the Faculties of Man; of the Sources of his Errors ; and of the Invention of Philofophical IMethods, - - ibid. IT.—Application of the Analytical Method to ' the Art of Medicine, _ _ - 17^ III.—Of the Difficulties that oppofethe Appli- cation of the Analytical INIethod to the Obfervation and Treatment of Dif- eafes, - - - - - -183 IV^.—^The fame Difficulties and Dangers occur in the Claffilication of Remedies, - 18G V.—Of the Attempts that have been made to improve Medical Claffifications, - 189 \ I. —Of other Difficulties which we have to encounter, - - - - - 192 VII.—AVe always necefi’arily revert to S\'ffem, which, in itlelf, can never prove pre- S judicial.