Download or read book An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 6th, 1849 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Jacob Bigelow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 6th, 1849 On the other hand, exhibit a case of actual disease, and every observer will put and answer in his own mind, and with the rapidity of thought, an endless variety of queries upon points in which, perhaps, he alone is deficient, and for the reception Of which his mind alone is stimulated. Another point is more important. Sensible qualities must be described by reference to acknowledged standards and we can thus measure heat, and space. And weight; but not shades of color, nor the attributes soft and hard, nor the varying outline of a curve. In the same way a personal examination will yield the qualities of an odor, a pulse, a tumor, an ex pression of the features, which pages Of tedious description might fail to do. And the mind which painfully contemplates an abstraction, will seldom fail, at such a moment, to arrest some tangible association by which the abstract quality is permanently fixed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.