OF DOSIMETRIC THERAPEUTICS; OR THE Treatment of Diseases by Simple Remedies; INCLUDING SYMPTOMATOLOGY, THERMOMETRY AND UROSCOPY, WITH SYNOPTICAL TABLES EPITOMISING IMPORTANT A Work particularly designed for Practitioners ; BY DR. AD. BURGGRAEVE, Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium; Emeritus Professor of Ghent University; Senior Surgeon of the Civil Hospital, Ghent; Hon. Member of the Société des Médecins Russes of St. Petersburg ; TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, AND EDITED, BY HENRY ARTHUR ALLBUTT, M.R.C.P.E., L.S.A. Laureate (Silver Medal and Diploma of Honour) of the Institut Libre de Médecine Corr. Member of the Sociedad de Medicina Dosimétrica of Madrid, &c.; TO THE FIBLIO London: OUT !882 DAVID BOGUE, PUBLISHER TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURCA 3, ST. MARTIN'S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, W.C. 1882. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.} 151.0 bg- "Il ne faut pas s'arrêter au mot: Médecine dosimétrique, qui pourrait donner l'idée d'une réforme générale. Il y a eu, par exemple, une médecine physiologique; il y a une méthode dosimétrique. Ainsi ramenée à ses proportions, l'œuvre du professeur de Gand reste considérable." 66 MARCHAL (de Calvi). Genuine medicine has deviated from its natural paths; it has lost its noble object, that of curing or alleviating. By thus acting, it has rejected therapeutics. Yet, without therapeutics, the physician is nothing more than a useless naturalist, passing his life in discovering, classing, and describing human diseases. It is therapeutics which elevates and ennobles our art; it alone gives it an object; and I may add that by it alone can this art become a science." AMÉDÉE LATOUR 'If we wish to form a true therapeutics, we must act vitally. In that sense, an entire revolution would be made; but a revolution in therapeutics is not possible, because therapeutics does not exist." CL. BERNARD (Leçons orales au Collège de France). ΤΟ The Illustrious and Venerable Dr. Burggraeve, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHENT, OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF CHARLES III. OF SPAIN, ORIGINATOR OF THE DOSIMETRIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE, RESTORER OF THE DOCTRINE OF VITALISM FOUNDED BY THE IMMORTAL HIPPOCRATES; THIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT PRACTICAL WORKS Is Dedicated, WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT AND VENERATION, BY The Translator. HE ALSO DEDICATES IT AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM, ADMIRATION, ΤΟ Monsieur Charles Chanteaud, of Paris, COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF ISABEL LA CATOLICA, ΤΟ Monsieur F. H. Rebaute, of Paris, SECRETARY OF THE INSTITUTE OF DOSIMETRIC MEDICINE, PARIS; ΤΟ Dr. T. L. Phipson, of Putney, London, EDITOR OF "THE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND DOSIMETRIC THERAPEUTICS;" EDITOR OF 66 INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO ENGLAND. ΤΟ Dr. J. Trudeau, of New Orleans, 'THE MEDICAL REVIEW ACCORDING TO THE DOSIMETRIC METHOD;" INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO THE UNITED STATES. AND TO Dr. Yurdapah Naidu, of the General Hospital, Madras, INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO INDIA. |