THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XLII. 
No. 493. 
JANUARY, 1869. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 169. 
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^ Communications and Cases. 
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^ THE RELATION BETWEEN PATHOLOGY AND 
THERAPEUTICS, 
j: By Professor Brown. 
^ Two paths are open to the student of medical science : 
Q one leads to a knowledge of the nature of abnormal condi- 
0 tions, the other to an acquaintance with the means of their 
rectification. It is quite possible to pursue both courses with 
equal attention ; but more commonly, the enthusiastic inves¬ 
tigator devotes himself to the exhaustive exploration of one. 
o Pathology has found many competent exponents, thera- 
* 1 peutics but few. Absolutely there is no comparison to be 
^ drawn between the results in each case, but the history of 
^ both furnishes material for thought. The science of disease, 
as it may be called, the study of the minute changes of func- 
^ tion and structure which combine to constitute abnormality 
of either, the correct appreciation of the influence of various 
^ external agencies upon internal actions, the knowledge of 
the laws which regulate the development of organic bodies, 
- has been steadily progressive through much confusion and 
doubt, by very slow and painful steps. Pathologists have 
‘J' advanced to a clear conception of the character of many, if 
^ not all, of the morbid changes to which the tissues of living 
j beings are liable. There is very much yet to be learned, but 
the knowledge which has been acquired is, so far as it extends, 
^ definite in its nature. Complex formulae are no longer neces- 
^ sary to express the phenomena of diseased action; the only 
possible variations from the normal state are concisely defined 
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