Bloodletting not necessary in the treatment of pneumonia / by D.W. Young, M.D.., Aurora, Ill.. ; a contribution to the report on practical medicine.

  • Young, Delos W., 1829-1874.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Bloodletting not necessary in the treatment of pneumonia / by D.W. Young, M.D.., Aurora, Ill.. ; a contribution to the report on practical medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment of Pneumonia. By Dk W. YOUNG, M.D., of Aurora, 111. [A Contribution bo the Report on Ptaotical Medicine. Bead before the Dllnoi Medical Society, May, 1*70.) Thbre :ir<' few fchingfl more interesting to those who feel pleasure in watching the extraordinary advancement of knowl- edge, at the present time, than the very rapid progress of phi- losophical views, in every department of medicine) especially 18 this true, in physiology and pathology. The advancement in those branches of medical science has been truly wonderful. Very many of the old illogical dogmas, theories, and isms are being swept from their antiquated moorings, by their onward march. Inductive reasoning and teaching have become ''the order of the day, as necessary and imperatively demanded in medicine as the sciences j and through its exact and philosophic requirements is leveling many of the heretofore rough places in medicine, and reducing much of the speculative to the posi- tive. Scientific men and women will no longer believe, iniless they can either hear, see. or feel. But, for the supremacy of induction, as the only reliable mode of discovering medical truth, medical science would forever group its way in the dark. In- duction begin* with facts, while deduction begins with ideas. By the former mode of reasoning and investigating, medical science has always made real and lotting progress; by the latter, the most visionary, ridiculous, and one-ideal systems and theories 1 N. -fe-Mn -,*•