Clinical memoirs
Resumo
Editor’s preface,
there has been no english physician—perhaps it may be said
none of any country—since the time of harvey, who has effected
not only so great an advance in the knowledge of particular diseases,
but also so great a revolution in our habits of thought, and
methods of investigating morbid phenomena and tracing the
etiology of disease, as has the late dr. eichard bright.
to those who have received the knowledge of the connections of
dropsy, albuminous urine, and disease of the kidney, among the
first rudiments of medicine, the facts which establish that connection
may appear so simple and so easily ascertained, that the
amount of labour, the accuracy of the observation, and the rigid
adherence to the inductive method whiclf”cíiaracterised the whole
of bright’s researches, may hardly have been suspected, still less
adequately appreciated.