Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken].

  • John Aitken
Date:
1777
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Credit: Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it feems abfoluiely neceffary that thefe particulars be marked with the uttnoft poffible precifion. For indance, we are told, that there are two fpecies of fe¬ brile delirium, requiring the mod oppofite treatment; but who has hither¬ to pointed out, with diffident accuracy, the fymptoms afcertaining their important dileriruination ? If, therefore, in fuch a perilous predicament the Genius of blunder fhould but for a moment over¬ cloud the pradtitioner’s difcernment, which is a very fuppofable, but I hope, a rare occurence ; conclamatum eft. ’Till pathology, therefore, is more de¬ termined and complete, don’t cafes befet with dubiety and peril, feem juflly to de¬ mand a fufpenfion of hoflilities (fo to fpeak) or of our therapeutic efforts ; which, permit me to fay, may often with juft ice be termed the impertinence of art ? Thefe daring pra&itioners, who in the
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