An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina.

  • Newnan, John, approximately 1773-1833
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] five benefactor of the human race, (than thofe phyficians who gave them this ge- neral character, that they were mofl ex- cellent remedies in dropfy,) but could not at the fame time point out the particu- lar <ircumftances in which they might be fafely exhibited. Yet, after all our bell: difcoveries and at- tainments, we daily fall into grofs mis- takes, arifing not fo much from necelTary error in our judgment, as the imperfecti- on of our organs, while the foul is chain- ed down to the evidence of the fenfes : flill he is the wifeft man, who acquires the moll: of this knowledge, of himfelf and human nature, that his faculties are capa- ble of; than this, God and nature require no more at our hands.