Outline of a natural system of medical science (Registro nro. 119396)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | R |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walker, Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1779-1852 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Outline of a natural system of medical science |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-05-13 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Jamie Brydone-Jack and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Outline of a natural system of medical science by Alexander Walker is a scientific publication of medical lectures written in the early 19th century. It proposes a unified framework for anatomy, physiology, pathology, and the materia medica, and advocates more precise surgical practice. The likely topic is how to organize medical science around a few fundamental functions and their relations, so that diagnosis, treatment, and operative technique follow from a single, “natural” arrangement.<br/><br/>The work divides organs and functions into three linked sets—mechanical (support, connection, locomotion), vital (absorption, circulation, secretion), and intellectual (sensation, mental operation, volition)—and uses this scheme to structure teaching and to explain life and mind as outcomes of organization and motion. It extends the same triad to disease, classifying illnesses by the first function deranged and by whether that function is diminished, irregular, or increased, then aligns remedies to those categories; along the way it critiques prevailing systems (notably Cullen and Brown) for partial views. Walker leans on comparative anatomy to test physiological claims and sketches broad applications to philosophy and the arts. In surgery he introduces a fundamental principle: use fixed external landmarks and proportional measurements to locate internal structures with precision, illustrated by taking up the subclavian artery, to replace vague and hazardous cutting. The book closes with polemical asides against critics and a call for systematic, demonstrable methods in medical teaching and practice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Edinburgh: R. Phillips, 1808 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Medicine |
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| Uncontrolled term | Physiology |
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| Uncontrolled term | Pathology |
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| Uncontrolled term | Anatomy |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/b2195835x/page/n1/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/b2195835x/page/n1/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78678">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78678</a> |
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