Prognosis 1An address given to the meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on February 13th, 1907.
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Prognosis is one of the most ancient branches of medicine. In early times pathology, or the science of disease, did not exist, and treatment was for the most part ineffectual as well as superstitious. But the forecasting of events, when based upon prolonged experience, justly impresses both the educated and the vulgar. We see this in the case of the oldest of sciences?astronomy, based on observations and proved by the power of prediction of eclipses. One can imagine how those who had scoffed at a mortal being able to foretell the overshadowing of the sun or moon, and to foretell it on a definite day or night, must have been impressed by the beginning and completion of the shadow of the earth. The same holds with other branches of science : the cultivation of crops and of flowers, construction of piers and bridges, the 1 An address given to the meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on February 13th, 1907.
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