A great deal has been written in modern books on pathology about the difficulty of defining the word "disease." The dictionary calls it "lack or absence of ease, pain, uneasiness, distress, trial, trouble," &c., but against either of these definitions objections may he raised. James Paget says: "Ease and disease, well and ill, and all their synonyms are relative terms, of which none can be fixed unconditionally. If there could be fixed a standard of health, all deviations from it might be called diseases; but a chief characteristic of living bodies is not fixity, but variation by...
A great deal has been written in modern books on pathology about the difficulty of defining the word "disease." The dictionary calls it "lack or absen...
