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Excerpt from A Manual Medical Diagnosis: Being an Analysis of the Signs and Symptoms of Disease The ultimate object of study in all departments of medicine the object which must ever be kept in view alike by teacher and pupil - is the relief of the patient by the successful treatment of disease. To this end the properties of various remedial agents are taught in Materia Medica, as they possess the power of neutralizing or eliminating poisons, of counteracting morbid action in its progress or modifying its results, and of aiding and sustaining the powers of life, when those wonderful laws of our economy come into operation, by which the destructive agency of noxious in uences is combated, and the useless and effete or injured tissues are extruded from the body. To the same end the student must acquire a knowledge of the various structures of the body and the functions of its organs in health, as well as the pathological changes in solids and uids, which become the subjects of anatomical research, and perversions of healthy function which may be traced at the bedside in the pro gress of disease: these belong to the domain of Physiology and Pathology. The theory of disease, again, combines, by the aid of experience, the perversion of function with the change of structure, deducing the symptoms observed as a necessary sequence from the disturbance of the laws of health to which such changes must give rise; but it also teaches us that there are other and more hidden ele ments of disease, stamped in their operation on the human frame, with characters no less marked and distinct, which have yet evaded our most diligent search. This department divides itself into two branches: it points out the alliances and differences between various forms of disease and the prominent features by which they are characterized, and to this the name of Nosology has been applied; while under the name of Semeiology it especially treats of the symptoms of diseased action which each organ or region of the body is capable of manifesting. It is the province of Diagnosis to com bine together these various lessons, and by the application of the symptomatology of disease in general to any particular case, to arrive at a just conclusion regarding its true nature and pathology. 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."