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THE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE.

The Principles of Medicine, as taught in this school,
comprise General Pathology, and a brief view of General
Therapeutics; also Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Diagnosis
and Prognosis. The nature and division of causes
are first considered, which introduces the student to their
effects—disease. Pathology proper is next considered under

the two forms, Functional and Structural diseases. After
the student thoroughly understands the nature of the causes
of diseases, their divisions, modes of operation, and the resulting
effects upon function and structure, a general view
is given of the influences that can be brought to remove or
counteract their effects. and the course on the Principles
is then concluded by the consideration of Nosology, Semeiology,
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and the Different Modes of
Death.

Text-Books—Wood's General Pathology and General Therapeutics,
in the last edition of his Practice.