Novum organum medicorum : a new medical logic ; or, the art of thinking and right reasoning applied to practical medicine ... / [Vincenzo Lanza].

  • Lanza, Vincenzo, 1784-1860.
Date:
1826
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    « « Vll general principle, but what results from the minute and analytic consideration of particular facts, at once undisputed and unquestionable. In a word, while other theoretic systems are constructed by synthesis, that of our author proceeds by the more tedious, but sure and satisfactory method of analysis. With a mind of a kindred cast to that of the great Lord Bacon, Lanza was, from early life, a devoted admirer of the analytic system of philoso- phising, the superiority of which, as an engine for the successsul investigation of truth, over the synthetic methods of dogmatising previously in use, is demonstrated in that admirable work, the title of which, ce Novum Organum” is borrow- ed from his great prototype, by our author. As Bacondid into the sciences generally, Professor Lanza is ambitious of the honour of introducing, into me- dicine, the true system of philosophising, rather than to have himself considered the inventor or author of an ingenious theory. His principles being strictly logical deduc- tions from facts, the translator will be much mistaken if the reader of experience does not find, in their application to the phenomena of disease, many occasions on which they will enable him to reconcile apparent discrepancies in nature, and to give satisfactory explanations of the operation and effects of remedial means, which he has been in the habit of employing empirically, on account of their beneficial powers, without the light of any theo- retical principle, if not in opposition to those com- monly taught in the schools.