General Remarks on the Practice of Medicine

Abstract

AFFECTIONS, NOT ORGANIC. I.-General View of thte Subject. Tlhe Pulse. IT is always desirable to trace out the just limit of a subject, and to note the right places within it for all known facts; and also where kindred facts, hereafter to be known, may take up their places beside them. This I some years ago sought to do, as far as my observation then enabled me, for the subject of dis- eases of the Heart (Lectutres on Clinical Medicine, comprising Diseases of the Ileart). It was a sketch only that I attempted. But the facts there consi- dered, numerous as they are, and facts of the like nature hereafter to be known, numerous as they may be, would go to make up a part only of the