Excerpt from Diseases of the Heart: Diagnosis and Treatment
In writing the following pages, I have been scrupulously careful not to place my own unsustained assertions in opposition to the results of clinical demonstrations or extreme probabilities. I have also endeavored to give the anatomy, or topography, of the structures under consideration, with as much accuracy as possible.
There are no such obstacles now, in the way of writing intelligibly on diagnosis of diseases of the heart, as there were even twenty-five years ago. If medicine has not yet become a science, it has, at least, so far advanced as to recognize its own defects, and to be conscious of its absolute knowledge. Physicians now know where their knowledge ends and their theories begin; and in this they are far in advance of their forefathers.
My aim has been to limit myself, as closely as possible, to known facts, and to indulge in no idle speculations, for the purpose of introducing some favorite theory of my own, in order to make myself seem original. I need not tell my intelligent readers that this treatise is merely an abstract; but it is hoped that they will find it what the author designed it to be, a careful and conscientious epitome of the knowledge now possessed by the profession on the subject of which it treats. My only claim to their commendation will consist in having placed the knowledge already possessed in a more accessible form, of having made the facts we daily need to use more tangible, by stripping them of some of their garniture, and grouping them in closer and more obvious relations to each other.
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