PATHOLOGY

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) Literally, the doctrine of disease. As physiology teaches the nature of the functions of the body in a state of health, so pathology relates to the various derangements of these functions which constitute disease. Its objects, therefore, are to ascertain the various symptoms which characterize the disorders of each organ of the body, and especially the diagnostic and pathognomic symptoms, which afford the means of discrimination between diseases that resemble one another; to determine the causes, both predisposing and exciting, by which diseases are induced; to point out the tendency and probable i ue of er.ch disease from the varying appearance of the symp901 PAT RIP AS SIx\NS. toms; and finally to explain the symptoms of recovery and the nature and operation of the remedies adapted to the various circumstances and periods of diseases. (Conversations Lexicon.) PATHOS (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.), is applied in literary language to any composition calculated to excite all, but chiefly the tender, emotions of the mind. In France, this term is generally used in a somewhat disparaging sense, being applied to that species of composition which indulges in strained and unnatural declamation. [s. 914]