Considered on an over-all basis, the clinic 
appears -in terms of the doctor's experience- 
as a new outline of the perceptible and 
statable: a new distribution of the discrete 
elements of corporal space (for example, the 
isolation of tissue -a fuctional, two-dimens-
ional area- incontrast with the functioning 
mass of the organ, constituting the paradox 
of an 'internal surface') a recognization of 
the elements that make up the pathological 
phenomenon (a grammar of signs has replaced a botany of symptoms), 
a definition of the linear series of morbid 
events (as opposed to the table of nosological 
species), a welding of the disease onto the 
organism (the disappearance of the genereal 
morbid entities that grouped symptoms together 
in a single logical figure, and their repalce-
ment by a local status that situates the 
being of the disease with its causes and 
effects in a three-dimensional space).

Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic : 
An Archaeology of Medical Preception, 
NY:Vintage Books Edition, 1994, page xviii.