| Popis: |
We are always seeking for symptoms that tell the exact nature of the diseases of the human body. If there were idiopathic signs the people would learn many of them, and hardly need doctors, except for the mysteries of treatment; and even these they would more or less master in time, as now they often think they have mastered them. The doctors are alert for the smallest hint of a new sign that can show without error the goings-on in the sick body. The treatment of disease troubles us rather less than the diagnosis; and we are usually more chagrined at our errors of diagnosis than at blunders of treatment. The temperature of the body in health is maintained at a given point, with slight fluctuations, in all climates and conditions; and it fluctuates peculiarly in disease, and probably with some approach to a typical manner. How these mutations may |
