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Title: Medical magazine
Year: 1832 (1830s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Boston : Allen & Ticknor
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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physiological, not to say morephilosophical method of examining the brain than has prevailed. In these lectures the Doctor had little or nothing to say directlyabout his peculiar phrenological principles ; but some gentlemenhave observed, that through the whole he was indirectly and in-geniously laying their foundations in the views of cerebral struc-ture which he presented. If he can establish his phrenology, orany other explanation of mental phenomena, by legitimate infer-ences, on such a foundation as was laid in his fair and satisfac-tory exhibitions of the structure of the brain, we will only say,amen : a system of philosophy thus established will certainlystand, unshaken as little by the cavils of those who are unwilling,as by the ridicule of those who are unable to comprehend itspretensions. The popular course on phrenology is now going on, and isattended with increasing avidity by constantly increasing au-diences ; but with what success as to converts we are unableto learn. E.
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<m^flw EDICAL MAGAZINE. VOL. I. NOVEMBER, 1832. NO. V. Itaque ad experientiae et scientiae istius cui inservio normam, mea omnia exigiet probari velim. —Willis, Art. T. — Cautions in Auscultation. By J. Greeley Stevenson, M. D. Read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and committedto Doctors Ware, Fisher and Jackson, to consider and report thereon. (n this paper J propose to ask your attention to some of theuncertainties which affect the diagnostic signs afforded by thestethoscope, and by percussion. I am far from doubting thevalue of the discovery of Laennec. A little acquaintance withit, and the observation of its practical application by its illustri-ous author, must produce the conviction that sagacity and ex-tensive observation and unintermitting use, may find in thismeans of diagnosis more certain indications than are furnishedelsewhere. But without great study and constant practice weare in danger of being misled by phenomena, the precise valueof which we

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