Dissolution and Evolution and the Science of Medicine : An Attempt to Co-ordinate the Necessary Facts of Pathology .,.,.

23x15cm, xvi,246 pp. Full title reads: "Dissolution and Evolution and the Science of Medicine : An Attempt to Co-ordinate the Necessary Facts of Pathology and to Establish the First Principles of Treatment / By C. Pitfield Mitchell". [" By the following pages it is proposed to disseminate some new applications of Mr. Herbert Spencer's leading generalisations. The sustaining elements of the Synthetic Philosophy are the doctrines of evolutiono and dissolution: The design is to inquire whether those may not be made fertilising principles for large collections of the data of pathology, and thus the means of practicve for the physician and surgeon" - from preface. Contents: General Disease: Inflammation & Suppuration as Dissolutional Changes; Resolution & Repair as Evolutional Changes; The Retrograde Metamorphoses as Dissolutional Changes; The Changes Induced by Vegetable and Animal Parasites as Exemplifying Dissolution; Neoplasms as Exemplifying Dissolution & Evolution; Special Disease: Special Diseases as Exemplifying Dissolution & Evolution; Implications. The Results & Contingent Principles. Minor wear. Small dent to binding edge. VG. …