Diagnostic Therapeutics

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Excerpt from Diagnostic Therapeutics: A Guide for Practitioners in Diagnosis by Aid of Drugs and Methods Other Than Drug-GivingThe author in the third edition of his Clinical Diagnosis has made succinct reference to the employment of drugs in diagnosis, and, since then, he contemplated devoting a special work to this subject, which finds expression in the present volume. Although desirous of limiting himself exclusively to diagnostic pharmaco therapy, it was necessary to add other therapeutic procedures to maintain the continuity of the subject. This is neither a work on therapeutics nor on diagnosis, but an attempt has been made to conciliate both subjects with a special object in view. The author is neither a therapeutic optimist nor pessimist and he believes that more accurate clinical observations by means of objective signs would more surely establish a rational system of therapeutics. Unfortunately, therapeutic nihilism dominates scientific medicine, and pharmacotherapeutic results are attributed to suggestion or to some other recondite factor. The fact is that experimental pharmacology has migrated too far afield from the clinic. Many of the observations of the clinician are rejected by the laboratory pharmacologist unless accompanied by proof tantamount to a chemic reaction. If such scientific control is permitted, we must with equal reason exclude from our nosology all functional diseases, because the pathological anatomist can not find lesions to explain the symptoms. The crucial test for the action of drugs is in their clinical application. Many of our most potent drugs, like mercury, opium, cinchona bark, nux vomica, etc., have been inherited from the therapeutic acumen of our medical ancestors.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.