LOCI
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
This article from the 1928–1936 Soviet Great Medical Encyclopedia discusses the conventional nature of disease classification based on anatomical localization and the complex relationship between local afflictions and the entire organism.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
LOCUS MORBI. See Locus. Drawing the conclusion that the existing division of diseases according to the principle of anatomical localization of the disease (diseases of the liver, stomach, nervous, eye, skin, etc.) is largely conventional. The questions of the interrelationship of local afflictions to the organism as a whole or to its individual systems constitute one of the most difficult pages of the entire doctrine of diseases and of pathogenesis in particular. [See also Locus minoris resistentiae, Skin diseases (The problem of the general and local in the pathogenesis of skin diseases).]
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“LOCI.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/loci/