A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, Vol. 1It is the more necessary to provide ourselves with such support at a time when shallow dilettantism seems to be usurping the place of rigid scientific inquiry. It is the surest way to guard against an error, which medical inquirers have been more guilty of than other students of natural science, that they have attempted to confound that which is accessible with that which is inaccessible to human research. The doctrine of nervous diseases has ever been peculiarly subject to this species of abuse, I have carefully avoided increasing the unknown range, by adding anything that was untrustworthy. I have been averse to anticipating the reader's judgment, by premising doctrinal considerations, which are but too apt to interfere with an unbiassed analysis of facts, general pathology is the keystone of the arch of which special pathology forms the foundation. This much is necessary to justify my departure from the ordi nary construction of manuals.I have retained the same division of the nervous diseases which I have followed for a series of years in my lectures delivered in the university, it is determined by the attributes of the four nervous levers of the organism, accordingly the subject will be considered under the following four heads: the Neurosis of Sensibility, the Neurosis of Motility, Logo-neurosis, and Tropho-neurosis. The delineations of the individual diseases have been taken from cases observed by myself, whenever this was feasible, they are unsoiled by the dust of tradition. I have been at great pains to exhibit the results obtained by surgical observation and experiment as the prototypes of complicated pathological conditions. It was not a part of my plan to introduce historical and literary disquisitions, although I have never neglected the duty of giving every one his due.Mv desire is, that practitioners, who are able to dispense with an accumulation of formulae, may derive benefit from the following investigations. But it is my ardent hope, that this book may be found by students of medicine, not only a source of instruction, but that it may stimulate them to inquiry, in order that fresh forces may be brought to bear on the great aim which we must seek to achieve, the emancipation of medical science from the trammels of mere mechanical technicalities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.