RT Journal
A1 WOOD F
T1 THe relation of pathology to practice
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD August 23
VO 73
IS 8
SP 569
OP 570
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610340001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610340001001
AB With the swinging of the pendulum in the science of medicine has come the fashion of neglecting pathology, the pathology of the type called, in the olden days, morbid anatomy. This neglect is shown in many ways: in a diminution in the volume of published work; in the lessened number of necropsies performed, and in the smaller number of men who are actively interested in the subject. It may be that the great days of Rokitansky, of Virchow and of Cohnheim have passed never to return; but it is more likely that the next swing of the pendulum will bring with it a renewed interest in the study of the anatomic changes which accompany disease.That, despite the recent progress in biochemistry and serology, there are still a few things to be learned in morbid anatomy has been shown by the recent rediscovery of the peculiar types of bronchopneumonia which