For perfecting the statistical registration of diseases, with a view to the discovery of statistical truths concerning their history, nature, and phenomena, the want of a generally recognized Nomenclature of Diseases has long been felt as an indispensable... Public Health - Page 4831875Full view - About this book
| William Aitken - 1868 - 944 pages
...accepted simply as a contrivance to aid us in giving the same name to similar conditions of disease, and " for perfecting the statistical registration of diseases,...concerning their history, nature, and phenomena." Pathology, we know, is yet too young to base a scientific classification upon ; and as the Science... | |
| William Aitken - Medical geography - 1868 - 1068 pages
...accepted simply as a contrivance to aid us in giving the same name to similar conditions of disease, and "for perfecting the statistical registration of diseases,...concerning their history, nature, and phenomena." * " Section A comprehends those disorders which appear to involve a morbid condition of the blood,... | |
| American Medical Association. Committee on Nomenclature of Diseases - 1872 - 112 pages
...scientific accuracy, but as a contrivance for securing the use of the same name for the same disease, and "for perfecting the statistical registration of diseases, with a view to the discovery of the laws which determine their causes, phenomena, and results." The same may be said of that which... | |
| American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1872 - 880 pages
...scientific accuracy, but as a contrivance for securing the use of the same name for the same disease, and "for perfecting the statistical registration of diseases, with a view to the discovery of the laws which determine their causes, phenomena, and results." The same may be said of that which... | |
| Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1873 - 694 pages
...adoption. In the preface to this vol. the following passages occur : For perfecting the statistical regis. of diseases, with a view to the discovery of statistical truths concerning their hist., nature, and phenomena, the want of a generally recognized nomenclature of diseases has long... | |
| 1874 - 308 pages
...the press. BUREAU US MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE, January, 1874. PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH EDITION. FOR PERFECTING the statistical registration of diseases,...history, nature, and phenomena, the want of a generally recognised Nomenclature of Diseases has long been felt as an indispensable condition. The advantages... | |
| Johns Hopkins Hospital - 1875 - 566 pages
...diseases is best shown by the following i.quotation from the Preface to the Original English Edition : "For perfecting the statistical registration of diseases,...the want of a generally recognized nomenclature of disease has long been felt as an indispensable condition. The advantages accruing from accurate statistics... | |
| Obstetrical Society of London - Obstetrics - 1876 - 640 pages
...of the College of Physicians. They begin by saying — "The object of this nomenclature is to aid in perfecting the statistical registration of diseases,...concerning their history, nature, and phenomena." Beyond this they do not profess to proceed. They then call attention to this fact, that whilst, generally... | |
| 1874 - 576 pages
...Englishspeaking peoples, and efforts are being made to have it adopted by all nations for the perfection of the statistical registration of diseases, with a view...statistical truths concerning their history, nature. &c. For this purpose a generally recognised nomenclature of diseases nas long been felt as an indispensable... | |
| American Statistical Association - Computer network resources - 1918 - 916 pages
...committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London and published in 1869, declares that "for perfecting the statistical registration of diseases,...generally recognized nomenclature of diseases has been felt as an indispensable condition." Further, that "-among the great ends of such a uniform nomenclature... | |
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