The Food Factor in Disease, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Investigation Into the Humoral Causation, Meaning, Mechanism, and Rational Treatment, Preventive and ... Pectoris, Epilepsy, Etc.), Bilious Attack - Paperback

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The argument contained in this work proceeds from the consideration Of physiological metabolic' processes to the elucidation Of processes which we are accustomed to regard as pathological: it is, therefore, in the mam deductive, not inductive. Such an inquiry is of necessity severely hampered by the existing poverty Of exact chemical knowledge Of normal metabolism. But there is no reason for regarding it as. Hopeless. For, by a bolder use of the imagination than is usually considered scientific from an inductive standpoint, it is possible to frame provisional hypotheses, which may be brought thereafter to the test of clinical experience. Many such hypotheses were tested in this way, and, being found inconsistent with established clinical facts, were abandoned.

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