Medical reports of cases and experiments : with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles / By Samuel Argent Bardsley. M.D. M.R.M.S. Edinburgh; and M.S. London: physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, Lunatic Hospital, and Asylum; and Vice-President of the Literary, and Philosophical Society, at Manchester.

  • Samuel Argent Bardsley
Date:
1807
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Credit: Medical reports of cases and experiments : with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles / By Samuel Argent Bardsley. M.D. M.R.M.S. Edinburgh; and M.S. London: physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, Lunatic Hospital, and Asylum; and Vice-President of the Literary, and Philosophical Society, at Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been so far disciplined in the school of practice, — as to be enabled to distinguish between the in- genious, but delusive speculations of the framers of systems, and the rational inductions of cautious | experience. _ No doubt there are but few systems of medicine which do not embrace useful and important truths. But it is the Author’s opinion (which he has en- deavoured to follow in practice) that the practi- tioner acts most wisely, who, in imitation of the conduct of Cicero, in adopting the eclectic sect of philosophy, chuses out of each of the various medical systems, such: portions of their doctrine, and experience, as, in his own mind, approaches nearest the character of truth. It may perhaps be objected to the Author, that he has reported some of the cases too much in detail, But if it be considered, that in such instanees he has chiefly had in view, either the illustration of diseases imperfectly understood, or the due appre- tiation of novel and Important remedies, there wil] not, hetrusts, be much room for censure on this head. In the reports of Diabetes Mellitus, he par- ticularly felt himself justified in transcribing such a detail