An address delivered before the Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, April 30, 1853.

  • Williams, Henry W. (Henry Willard), 1821-1895.
Date:
1853
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Credit: An address delivered before the Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, April 30, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    clouded condition of the cornea, easily removed by a patient use of remedies; and in another case an individual was sent several hundred miles, by her physicians, for the purpose of procuring suitable spectacles in Boston. She returned to New Bruns- wick with well adapted glasses ; — but only after cataracts had been removed from the field of the pupils. If the physician can distinguish the ordinary forms of diseases of the four tissues I have mention- ed, he will be able to determine, with little diffi- culty, the character of the rarer affections. It is related, that a young man, after hearing a decision pronounced in court, in a cause where the merits of the case were perfectly apparent, remarked to the judge, that his position on the bench was a most easy one, since he had only to decide between black and white. Yes, was the reply; but what would you do in cases of a grey color \ By careful train- ing in the discrimination of strongly contrasted cases, the physician obtains the requisite skill for passing judgment on those which are in less bold relief. As a general rule, the diseases included in each of these anatomical genera have peculiar features,