New concepts in diagnosis and treatment; physico-clinical medicine, the practical application of the electronic theory in the interpretation and treatment of disease; with an appendix on new scientific facts

364 Pages·1916·14.27 MB·English

by  by Albert Abrams ... eight illustrations in the text.

UNIVERolTY or C.UIFORNiA
CALIFORNIA COLLEJM CF MEDiClf^L
JAN "1 1974
IRVINE, CAUFORNIA 92664
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NEW
CONCEPTS IN DIAGNOSIS
AND TREATMENT
PHYSICO-CLINICAL MEDICINE
THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE
ELECTRONIC THEORY IN THE INTERPRETATION
AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE
WITH AN APPENDIX ON NEW
SCIENTIFIC FACTS '
BY
ALBERTABRAMS,A.M.,LLD.,M.D.
(UNIVKRSIT^' OF HEIDELBERg)
F.R.M.S.
ONE-TIME PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AND DIRECTOR OF THE MEDICAL CI.INrC,
COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE (DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE,
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY)
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
PHILOPOLIS PRESS
SUITE 711, ST. PAUL BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
1916
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COPYRIGHT 1916
BY
ALBERT ABRAMS
TO MY WIFE
BLANCHE B. ABRAMS
—
ARCHETYPE OF PHYSICO-CLINICAL MEDICINE.
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and
express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure
it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of meager and un-
satisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in
your thoughts advanced to the stage of science."—(Kelvin.)
"Ich behaupte aber dass in jeder besonderen Xaturlehre nur so viel eigentliche
Wissenschaft angetrofifen werden konne, als darin Malhematik anzutreffen ist."
(Kant.)
"Progress is symbolized in the clock, the balance and the foot-rule."— (Clcrk-
Ma.xwell.)
Paraphrasis of the foregoing implies that if we can time, weigh and measure,
facts in lieu of theories could be submitted.
"Science, whose aim is to understand nature, must set out with the assurance
that nature is understandable."—(von Helmholtz.)
"Is there any phenomenon which works upon neither our natural senses, nor
upon their extensions, our present-day instruments and apparatus? Then, unless
it be out of relation with things, must it still be bound up with other phenomena
which do work upon our senses or our instruments. Thus it must sooner or later
become perceptible to us."—(Wiener, Die Enveilcruug uuscrcr Sinne.)