Latest Systems in Medicine: The Presidential Address Delivered to the Ohio State Medical Society, June, 1885 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Latest Systems in Medicine: The Presidential Address Delivered to the Ohio State Medical Society, June, 1885One fact in the history of medicine stands prominent it has always taken on the character of the age. In ancient times, and indeed down to a comparatively recent period, it was made a part of philosophy, and the history of one was the history of the other. Forced, then, to take its place in a rigid framework of doctrines, which included the mental, moral and physical world, and explained the economy of the universe, it had no independent existence, and moved but as a puppet. Again, it has always varied with the changes which its allied sciences have undergone. Thus, when chemistry was making brilliant discoveries, pathology and therapeutics became largely chemical, when physics was making rapid progress, vital actions, normal and abnormal, took on a mechanical aspect, under the in¿uence of the discoveries of Newton, and the doctrines of Des Cartes, an attempt was made to give them even a mathematical character.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.