Similarly there were a number of experienced clinicians who were sure that O'Dwyer's reported results could not be as represented.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Apoplexy, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, Bright's disease, are met with almost exclusively in what the older clinicians talked about as the apopleptic type.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
As a proof of the striking difference between the value of observation and theory in medicine, it may be said that many hundreds of volumes containing the most elaborate medical theories were published during the eighteenth century, and that practically none of these is ever read now, except for curiosity's sake by some seeker after the quaint and distant in medicine, while Morgagni's books still contain a precious fund of information, to which pathologists at least, and not a few clinicians, turn often with interest and come away always with profit.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh