. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. great stores of ex-perience garnered up by these eminent men. Dr. Boyden was considered to have specialskill in what is technically called diagnosis, or the art of distinguishing one disease from an-other, and in prognosis, the judging of theprogress and termination of disease by symp-toms. In these departments his judgment wasparticularly good. It has been said of him thatit was very rare for a patient to recover whenthe doctor had pronounced the ease hopeless,and on the other hand, a favorable opinion fromhim, as to the chances of r
. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. great stores of ex-perience garnered up by these eminent men. Dr. Boyden was considered to have specialskill in what is technically called diagnosis, or the art of distinguishing one disease from an-other, and in prognosis, the judging of theprogress and termination of disease by symp-toms. In these departments his judgment wasparticularly good. It has been said of him thatit was very rare for a patient to recover whenthe doctor had pronounced the ease hopeless,and on the other hand, a favorable opinion fromhim, as to the chances of recovery in a seem-ingly desperate case, gave encouragement andhope alike to patient and friends. It was thought the doctor had unusual suc-cess in the treatment of acute inflammatorydiseases, in typhoid fever, as it prevails in theConnecticut and Ashuelot Valleys in autumn,in pneumonia and lung affections generallyThe type and character of the same diseasevaries much in different sections of the country,and even in different localities in the same State,. *$??*.
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