Article September 21, 1899 Issue

New Theory of Sickness

Boston Post

A paper by Dr. Thomas F. Harrington of Lowell, which was read at a recent medical convention in the West, seems to have attracted an unusual amount of attention in the medical world.

Dr. Harrington's paper has been published in several of the medical journals, and he has received numerous congratulations from medical men. It has aroused special interest among the Harvard medical students and faculty, because Dr. Harrington has referred to the methods of teaching medicine employed at Harvard to demonstrate the truth of the position which he takes.

Dr. Harrington's paper is entitled, "The Philosophy of Sickness," and his theory, stated in brief, is that the physician should study the patient as well as the disease. He holds that each human being has a dual nature, and that no two persons are affected exactly alike, even by the same disease.

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