Excerpt from Dissertations on the Question How Far Are the External Means of Exploring the Condition of the Internal Organs to Be Considered Useful and Important in Medical Practice?: For Which Premiums Were Adjudged by the Boylston Medical Committee of Harvard University, 1836 The knowledge Of the signs presented by disease to the external senses, known as symptomatology or semeiology, or in their application as the science of diagnosis, is the Oldest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.