An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

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Macmillan, 1927 - 226 sidor
First English translation of the classical work on the principles of physiological investigation in life sciences.

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Sida 13 - The art of investigation is the cornerstone of all the experimental sciences. If the facts used as a basis for reasoning are ill-established or erroneous, everything will crumble or be falsified; and it is thus that errors in scientific theories most often originate in errors of fact.
Sida 15 - Where then, you will ask, is the difference between observers and experimenters ? It is here: we give the name observer to the man who applies methods of investigation, whether simple or complex, to the study of phenomena which he does not vary and which he therefore gathers as nature offers them. We give the name experimenter to the
Sida 37 - we start from an axiom or principle whose truth is absolutely necessary and conscious, freedom no longer exists; truths once established are immutable. Geometricians are not free to question whether the three angles of a triangle are or are not equal to two right angles; consequently they are not free to reject the logical consequences deduced from this principle.
Sida 41 - proper moment, in the sense that there is a necessary and ordered sequence in the appearance of scientific discoveries. Great men may be compared to torches shining at long intervals, to guide the advance of science. They light up their time, either by discovering unexpected and fertile
Sida 222 - before them, becomes at once their sole torment and sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. But by
Sida 18 - in conditions which nature often has not yet achieved. With the help of these active experimental sciences, man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress in the experimental sciences.
Sida 59 - animals, their more acute sensitiveness brings with it still more notable reactions and disturbances. Many physicians and speculative physiologists, with certain anatomists and naturalists, employ these various arguments to attack experimentation on living beings. They assume a vital force in opposition to physico-chemical forces, dominating all the phenomena
Sida 222 - by a whim of our nature, the joy of discovery, so sought and hoped for, vanishes as soon as found. It is but a flash whose gleam discovers for us fresh horizons, toward which our insatiate curiosity repairs with still more ardor. Thus, even in science itself, the known loses its attraction, while the unknown is always full of charm.
Sida 139 - if based on statistics, medicine can never be anything but a conjectural science; only by basing itself on experimental determinism can it become a true science, ie, a sure science. I think of this idea as the pivot of experimental medicine, and in this respect experimental physicians take a wholly different point of view from so-called observing physicians.

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