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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    CURSORY REMARKS ON THE PRESENT PESTILENTIAL EPIDEMICS. “ Vita brevis, ars longa, tempus praeceps, experi- mentum periculosum, judicium difficile.” Hippocrates. “ Est, enim haec ars, conjecturalis, neque respon- det ei plerumque non solum conjectura, sed etiam experientia —Rarius, sed aliquando, morbus quoque ipse novus est, quern non incidere, manifeste falsuna est.” Celsus. “ Few follow Things themselves ; more follow the Names of Things ; but most follow their leaders.” Bacon. “ A Physician may likewise collect the indications of cure from the smallest circumstances of the distem¬ per as certainly as he does the distinguishing signs from them. And for this reason I have often thought, that if L had a just history of any disease, I should never be at a loss to apply a suitable remedy to it : its different phenomena, or symptoms, manifestly shewing the way to be followed, and being carefully compared together, would lead, as it were by the hand, to those obvious indications that are gathered from a thorough insight into nature, and not from the errors of the imagination.” Sydenham.