Volume 1

Practical observations on the natural history and cure of the venereal disease / by John Howard.

  • John Howard
Date:
1787-1794
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Credit: Practical observations on the natural history and cure of the venereal disease / by John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ix ] fometimes findit united. But he may be afflured, that he will neither know his own acquirements, nor be able to judge candidly of the works of others, till he has carefully examined the ancient re- cords, as well as modern accounts of the difeafe. Highly as all practical know- ledge ought to be valued, it muft be con- feffed, that a man may learn a great deal by a juft comparifon of his own, with the obfervations of thofe who have been placed in fimilar circumftances with himfelf; who may, perhaps, have been endued with greater abilities, fuperior induftry, and have had much greater opportunities of information. Nor fhould any man carry his predileCtion for hie own notions fo far, as to imagine that the {mall contraGted fpan of his life, how attively foever it may have been em- ployed, can outweigh the productions of near three complete centuries, and the united labours of a prodigious number of intelligent practitioners. I fay prodi- b gious;
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