Cursory remarks on the present epidemick [of cholera] / [James Kendrick].

  • James Kendrick
Date:
1832
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Credit: Cursory remarks on the present epidemick [of cholera] / [James Kendrick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J'ai souvent desire qu'un medecin distingue, ou plutot qu'unc societe de medecins, entreprit un ouv- rage dans lequel, passant en revue toutes les branches de la medecine, ils exposeroient avec franchise ce qu'il y a d'inconnu, ce qu'il y a de faux, ce qu'il y a de dou- teux, ce qu'il y a de certain. Cet ouvrage ne seroit pas brillant, mais il seroit solide. Chaque eteve auroit, presque des l'entree de sa carriere, un point de mire vers lequel il dirigeroit toutes ses recherches ; il ne lui faudroit pas de longues annees pour revenir sur les matieres qu'il a etudiees, pour deraciner de son esprit une foule d'idees erronees qu'on lui dehitoit avec la meme assurance, et souvent meme avec plus d'art, que les verites les mieux demontrees. CRU\ E1LHIFR. The foregoing passages being familiar to every one, cannot be suspected of being introduced for the sake of display. They are quoted simply for the purpose of justifying the remarks which follow. These remarks were originally intended solely for the perusal of a few friends. Their brevity will, 1 trust, be a sufficient proof that they were not intended for the public eye. If they should produce any local good effect, I shall be more than satisfied. In Theology, in Politicks, in Medicine, and in many other Sciences, the mischief which has attended the misuse of Names, and the appropriation of one Name to two Things essentially different in their character, cannot have escaped the observation of any reflecting mind. In no Science whatever has this been more the case than in that of Medicine; and in no instance has lit been more strongly exemplified than in what relates jto that pestilence which is now stalking abroad. 'The term Cholera has probably slain its thousands, perhaps its millions, and will continue to do so, so long as the great bulk of mankind attend to Names rather than to Things. Should it be said that the epithet
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