Clinical memoirs

Abstract

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.