Essay on the origin, progress and treatment of cholera : with remarks on berriberri and diet as connected with endemics and epidemics / by James Bankier.

  • Bankier James.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Essay on the origin, progress and treatment of cholera : with remarks on berriberri and diet as connected with endemics and epidemics / by James Bankier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and pof^sible cure, demand from him re- searches which must be extended far beyond that limit, and of such a nature as will dis- play a utility, and stamp a dignity and be- nevolence upon his profession, equal, if not superior, to any that can be claimed by any other human science, or pursuit. Sir Gilbert Blane observes, in tlie intro- ductory remarks to his Medical Logic, that the production is the fruits of more than fifty years meditation and experience.— What an enchanting prospect this holds out for any one undertaking the study of Medi- cine. Our Author, too, was of deep research and practical knowledge, in his own profes- sion, and inferior to few in general attain- ments. How humiliating it is to think, that so little, of what some nw.j be inclined to call true knowledge, can be acquired in such a space of time. It would be injustice, how- ever, for any one to imagine that the instruc- tions contained in the Logic, could not be •acquired now a days in an incredibly shorter period, by an enterprising, industrious, and ingenious mind. I by no means wish to cast any reflection, were it possible, on Sir Gil- bert ; for, w^e know that in the more early part of his career, Medicine had not entirely escaped from the dee]) mist of superstition, and ignorance in which it was enveloped. Man was then but too apt to arrogate to him- self principles, whicli, when properly explain- ed could not be held tenable for a moment. In
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