OF

DOSIMETRIC THERAPEUTICS;

OR THE

Treatment of Diseases by Simple Remedies;

INCLUDING

SYMPTOMATOLOGY, THERMOMETRY AND UROSCOPY,

WITH SYNOPTICAL TABLES EPITOMISING IMPORTANT
CLINICAL CASES;

A Work particularly designed for Practitioners ;

BY

DR. AD. BURGGRAEVE,

Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium;
Commander of the Order of Charles III. of Spain;

Emeritus Professor of Ghent University; Senior Surgeon of the Civil Hospital, Ghent;
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium;

Hon. Member of the Société des Médecins Russes of St. Petersburg ;
Corr. Member of the Société de Chirurgie of Moscow, the Société Nationale de Chirurgie
of Paris, the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid;
Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon;
Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Rio de Janeiro;
President of the Institut de Médecine Dosimétrique of Paris; &c. &c. &c.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, AND EDITED,

BY

HENRY ARTHUR ALLBUTT, M.R.C.P.E., L.S.A.

Laureate (Silver Medal and Diploma of Honour) of the Institut Libre de Médecine
Dosimétrique of Paris;

Corr. Member of the Sociedad de Medicina Dosimétrica of Madrid, &c.;
Physician to the Institution for Skin Diseases, Leeds,

TO THE

FIBLIO

London: OUT !882

DAVID BOGUE,

PUBLISHER TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF

SURCA

3, ST. MARTIN'S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, W.C.

1882.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.}

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"Il ne faut pas s'arrêter au mot: Médecine dosimétrique, qui pourrait donner l'idée d'une réforme générale. Il y a eu, par exemple, une médecine physiologique; il y a une méthode dosimétrique. Ainsi ramenée à ses proportions, l'œuvre du professeur de Gand reste considérable."

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MARCHAL (de Calvi).

Genuine medicine has deviated from its natural paths; it has lost its noble object, that of curing or alleviating. By thus acting, it has rejected therapeutics. Yet, without therapeutics, the physician is nothing more than a useless naturalist, passing his life in discovering, classing, and describing human diseases. It is therapeutics which elevates and ennobles our art; it alone gives it an object; and I may add that by it alone can this art become a science."

AMÉDÉE LATOUR
(Union Médicale).

'If we wish to form a true therapeutics, we must act vitally. In that sense, an entire revolution would be made; but a revolution in therapeutics is not possible, because therapeutics does not exist."

CL. BERNARD (Leçons orales au Collège de France).

ΤΟ

The Illustrious and Venerable Dr. Burggraeve,

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHENT,

OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM,

COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF CHARLES III. OF SPAIN,
ETC., ETC., ETC.;

ORIGINATOR OF THE DOSIMETRIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE,

RESTORER OF THE DOCTRINE OF VITALISM FOUNDED BY THE IMMORTAL HIPPOCRATES;

THIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT

PRACTICAL WORKS

Is Dedicated,

WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT AND VENERATION,

BY

The Translator.

HE ALSO DEDICATES IT AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM, ADMIRATION,
AND FRIENDSHIP

ΤΟ

Monsieur Charles Chanteaud, of Paris,

COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF ISABEL LA CATOLICA,
FOUNDER OF THE DOSIMETRIC PHARMACY.

ΤΟ

Monsieur F. H. Rebaute, of Paris,

SECRETARY OF THE INSTITUTE OF DOSIMETRIC MEDICINE, PARIS;
AUTHOR OF "VADE-MECUM DE MÉDECINE DOSIMETRIQUE."

ΤΟ

Dr. T. L. Phipson, of Putney, London, EDITOR OF "THE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND DOSIMETRIC THERAPEUTICS;"

EDITOR OF

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INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO ENGLAND.

ΤΟ

Dr. J. Trudeau, of New Orleans,

'THE MEDICAL REVIEW ACCORDING TO THE DOSIMETRIC METHOD;" INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO THE UNITED STATES.

AND TO

Dr. Yurdapah Naidu, of the General Hospital, Madras,

INTRODUCER OF DOSIMETRY INTO INDIA.