Excerpt from Enchiridion Medicum, or the Practice of Medicine: The Result of Fifty Years' ExperienceAs regards the Classification which I have adopted, I may simply say that it is the same as that which I followed when a teacher, and which I ever found to be the most appropriate for clini cal instruction, the principal feature Of Which is: - the division of diseases i'l'lto species according to the most prominent morbid phenomena, this being the path traced to us by Nature herself. The first thing which she presents to us is the external appearance - the image Of disease, she strikes our senses with it, through this physiog~ nomy we must penetrate ere we reach the inte rior in search Of the invisible, there to investi gate the nature Of disease, its seat and causal relations, and it is on all these that we must base the method of our treatment.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.