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Classification (n.) that treats diseases as particular beings is always faulty: a judicious mind is drawn, almost in spite of itself, to look for sick organs.
The Corpse (n.) only seems silent to those who have not learned the art of questioning it.
Diagnosis (n.) means seeking the marks of a disease in physiology and, by skilful analysis, untangling the often confused cries of the sick organs.
Fever (n.) cannot be essential: it is only a quickened flow of blood with more heat and a lesion of the main functions, always hanging on some local irritation.
Inflammation (n.) is not a cluster of signs — redness, heat, swelling, pain — but a process within a tissue: any local stir of the organic movements strong enough to upset the functions and disorganize the tissue it settles in.
Irritability (n.) is the power every tissue has of moving on contact with a foreign body; sensitivity is only the awareness of those movements — the embryo is not yet sensitive, the apoplectic no longer, yet both are irritable.