ON THE CLINICAL ENTITY
Authors: O E GUTTENTAG
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 September 1949ON THE CLINICAL ENTITYOTTO E. GUTTENTAG, M.D.OTTO E. GUTTENTAG, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-31-3-484 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe object of this paper is to identify certain dimly-conscious thought processes gone through every day by physicians and to emphasize the significance of some of them, but it does not claim to contain anything new. More specifically, we are here discussing factors a physician observes and reflections he makes to comprehend a group of patients as similar, or to visualize an individual patient in his totality. The result of the former comprehension will be called a clinical entity. (That of the latter is named individual diagnosis.)Since the term clinical entity denotes a concept of uniformity in patients, the...Bibliography1. ACKERKNECHT EH: Natural diseases and rational treatment in primitive medicine, Bull. Hist. Med., 1946, xix, 467-497. Google Scholar2. ALLBUTT TC: A system of medicine by many writers, 1898, Macmillan Company, New York. (1896, MacMillan & Co., Ltd., London.) CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. CABOT RC: Differential diagnosis, v. 1, 1911, W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London. Google Scholar4. CLENDENINGHASHINGER LEH: Methods of diagnosis, 1947, The C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri. Google Scholar5. FABER K: Nosography: The evolution of clinical medicine in modern times, second edition, revised, 1930, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., New York. Google Scholar6. GARBER ST: Stedman's practical medical dictionary, 1942, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Google Scholar7. GOLDSTEIN K: The organism, a holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man, 1939, American Book Company, New York. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. GROTE LR: Grundlagen aerztlicher Betrachtung, 1921, Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin. Google Scholar9. : Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1945, cxxviii, 228-232. Google Scholar10. JASPERS K: Allgemeine Psychopathologie, vierte voellig neu bearbeitete Auflage, 1946, Springer Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg. Google Scholar11. NEUBURGERPAGEL MJ: Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, begruendet von Th. Puschmann, v. 2, 61, 1903, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena. Google Scholar12. CHRISTIAN HA The Oxford Medicine by various authors, edited by , 1921 (1928), Oxford University Press, New York. BARKER, L. F.: The rationale of clinical diagnosis, v. 1, 619-684. CHRISTIAN, H. A.: Present-day medicine, v. 1, 3-11. MACKENZIE, J.: The future of medicine, v. 1, 12-26. Google Scholar13. SIGERIST HE: The great doctors, 1933, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, p. 173. Google Scholar14. LOGIE HB Standard Nomenclature of Disease: first edition 1933 and second edition 1935, edited by ; third edition 1942, edited by E. P. JORDAN; American Medical Association, Chicago. Google Scholar15. TROUSSEAU A: Lectures in clinical medicine, delivered at the Hôtel Dieu, Paris (Clinique médicale de l'hôtel Dieu), translated from the edition of 1868 by John Rose Cormack, v. 3, 14, 1869, The New Sydenham Society, London. Google Scholar16. VIRCHOW R: Ueber Standpunkte in der wissenschaftlichen Medicin, Virchow's Arch. f. path. Anat. u. Physiol., 1847, i, 3-19. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17. WEIZSAECKER VV: Studien zur Pathogenese, 1946, Georg Thieme, Wiesbaden. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: OTTO E. GUTTENTAG, M.D.Affiliations: San Francisco, California*Received for publication July 8, 1948.From the Division of Medicine, Subdivision of Homeopathy, of the University of California Medical School, San Francisco 22, California. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDiagnostic Accuracy of the AzBio Speech Recognition in Noise TestThe Gold Standard and Auditory Processing DisorderResponse to the Letter to the Editor from Chermak, Iliadou, Bamiou, and Musiek (2018) Regarding Vermiglio (2018), “The Gold Standard and Auditory Processing Disorder”Round Table DiscussionDying Right in California — The Natural Death ActThe Problem of Experimentation on Human BeingsTwo diagrams on the clinical entity 1 September 1949Volume 31, Issue 3Page: 484-496KeywordsGratitudeHistory of medicineHomeopathy ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1949 PDF downloadLoading ...