DIAGNOSIS

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's ill- I ne or the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to b_e little more than a gue enlightened by experience. Swan v. Railroad O:i., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. 337. J DIALEOTIOS, That branch of logic which teaches tile rules and modes of reasoning. [s. 371]