Excerpt from The Systemic Functions and Their Reciprocal Influence in Disease: Being Preliminary to a Study of Pharmaco-Dynamics The fundamental difference between physicians of the Old school and the New, is to be found in their method of observing disease as a therapeutic problem. An Old school physician in charge of a number of cases of croupous pneumonia, sees little or no difference between one and another, for the physi cal signs, the cough, pain, dyspnoea and other local symptoms, are practically the same; consequently, being guided by these pathological indications, his treatment will be alike in all cases. Should a serious complication arise in any case, he will treat it independently of the disease. The New school physician considers his cases differently. He sees these points of similarity, but also finds that the collateral phenomena, headache, delirium, pains in back or limbs, vomiting or diarrhoea, differences of temperature, car diac tone, etc., show considerable variation; consequently he distinguishes one case from another by the presence or ab sence of these concomitants. He then chooses his remedy for each case as a unit. 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.