A treatise on tropical diseases ; and on the climate of the West-Indies / By Benjamin Moseley, M.D.

  • Benjamin Moseley
Date:
1787
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Credit: A treatise on tropical diseases ; and on the climate of the West-Indies / By Benjamin Moseley, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lighted up the world, it was the fafhion ol phyfic to talk learnedly on Cartefian errors; to purge and vomit mathematically; and to be able to account for all things geometrically, and to have a perfect acquaintance with every thing, but nature. If each of the laborious writers of that, and former periods, inftead of writing on every dif- eafe, had taught us effectually to cure one;—if inftead of making books they had made obfer- vations on difeafes, even the Gout might have fubmitted ;—the Infane Mind might have been reftored, and the caufe explained, wherefore that derangement of the intellectual, exifts with- out impairing the corporal, faculties.—The 'Te- tanus would probably no longer have perplexed us, nor wherefore that terrible difeafe fo par- tially and violently invades the body, without difturbing the mental, and vital functions. But the misfortune to which the fcience of phyfic has been, and muft ever be fubject, is, that thofe who will write mod, muft be, in general, lead qualified ; for large books cannot be writ- ten in the hurry of extenfive practice; and no- thing but extenfive practice can cure a man of prejudices, and qualify him to write at all, Be fides,
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