Mackenzie, J: Symptoms and Their Interpretation (Classic Rep

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The value of a Hypothesis. The parsimony of Hypotheses. Nomenclature.

1. Medicine 3. Science. - Medicine has not attained that position in science which ought of right to belong to her. Instead of leading in scientific development, and giving guides and indications to allied branches, she is too Often content languidly to follow in their wake, or to pursue some erratic course of her own. The. Observations made in her name are frequently made more to support some vague speculation or far-fetched theory than to realise the actual condition of the observed phenomena. The sister sciences in place Of seeking for assistance from medicine look askance at the wild speculations put forth in the name of medical science, and at the loose thinking and play of the imagination which many medical writers deem legitimate in dealing with the phenomena of disease. To emancipate medicine from this position Of inferiority, and to secure for it that status which it ought to possess, an effort must be made, as far as possible, to free it from the habiliments that have.

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