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Chap. IV]

THE FIVE FACULTIES

§ 53.

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its psychological data from the PhiloThat the Theological faculty also comes into

the iMedical derives logical faculty.

is not denied but since it is the very purpose of this investigation to point out the place in the organism of science which belongs to the Theological faculty,

consideration here

we

pass

A^ation

it

by

;

Only

for the present.

be made, that

it

is

let the

necessary obser-

contradictory to the peculiar

character of the medical studies to leave the important decision concerning the imputability of guilt in the process

punishment to be accounted for by this faculty. Finally boundary must be drawn for the medical faculty on the side of the juridical faculty. For on that side also medical science steps constantly beyond the lines of its propriety. It demands, indeed, that public authority shall unconditionally adopt the results from medical and hygienic domains into civil ordinances, and shall execute what it prescribes. This absoof

a last

lute

demand should be

declined,

first,

because these results

lack an absolute, and sometimes even a constant character

and

the second place,

in

because

it

is

not the task of

medical, but of juridical science to investigate in

how

far

the claims of the body should be conditioned by the higher claims of the psychic and social

life.

Within these boundaries these medical studies naturally divide

themselves, according to their object, into studies

which investigate the healthy body; Avhich trace the phenomena of disease; and which have for their purpose the cure of these abnormal phenomena. The study of the body as

such,

i.e.

in

its

healthy state, divides

itself

equally

naturally into the somatical and psychico-somatical, while the

somatic studies divide again into anatom}^ and physiology.

The

which have for their object the deviations from the sick body, are pathology and psychopathology. The studies, finally, which direct themselves to Therapeutics, divide into medical, surgical, and psychiatrical, to which Medicine and applied Medica join themselves. Only the place of Obstetrics is not easily pointed out, because a normal delivery, without pain, would not be a pathological phenomenon, and to this extent Obstetrics would sciences

the normal,

i.e.

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