. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . otably subdivided peripneumonia into pleu-risy, pneumonia, and bronchitis, these having been pre-viously confounded. He once remarked; You mayobserve disease of the heart, lungs, abdominal viscera, etc.,night and morning by the sick-bed for twenty years, yetthe whole furnishes merely a jumble of phenomena whichunite in nothing complete; but if you open a few bodies,you will see the obscurity speedily give w
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . otably subdivided peripneumonia into pleu-risy, pneumonia, and bronchitis, these having been pre-viously confounded. He once remarked; You mayobserve disease of the heart, lungs, abdominal viscera, etc.,night and morning by the sick-bed for twenty years, yetthe whole furnishes merely a jumble of phenomena whichunite in nothing complete; but if you open a few bodies,you will see the obscurity speedily give way,—a result neveraccomplished by observation if we do not know the seat ofthe disease. To Bichat is also due our modern recognition BICHAT. 209 of cellular, osseous, fibrous, and other tissues, as such,wherever they appear throughout the body. He differ-entiated, without the aid of the microscope, twenty-onedifferent tissues as simple and similar elements of the body,enumerating them as one does the chemical elements; hedescribed the stomach as composed of mucous, serous, andmuscular layers; overthrew the speculative tendency ofmedicine, and placed facts in the front rank; and so. Fig. 31.—Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, (From a steel engraving by H. Cooke of a painting by Vigneron.) conspicuous were his services that he has been termedthe Napoleon of Medicine. He supplemented the in-fluence of Pinel upon the side of pathological anatomy;called sensibility and contractility vital properties, whosealterations constitute disease, claiming, however, thatthe vital properties of individual tissues differed amongthemselves. His life and works are revelations to youngmen, and show what can be accomplished at a very early 210 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. age by sufficiently active and harmoniously developedbrains. In reviewing the theories and lives of those mentionedas medical luminaries of the eighteenth century, one ex-periences a feeling of mingled respect and disappointment—
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