Practical observations on the preservation of health, and the prevention of diseases; comprising the author's experience on the disorders of childhood and old age, on scrofula, and on the effect of cathartic medicines / By Sir Anthony Carlisle.

  • Anthony Carlisle
Date:
1836
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Credit: Practical observations on the preservation of health, and the prevention of diseases; comprising the author's experience on the disorders of childhood and old age, on scrofula, and on the effect of cathartic medicines / By Sir Anthony Carlisle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    standing, possesses and employs the established wisdom of preceding authors; and because compilations from ancient medical books, laid down for exact precedents, are delusive, they have become of little value, since scientific and critical researches have shewn the old doc- trines to be erroneous, their evidences being either vague or inaccurate, and their induc- tions consequently unfounded. To rely upon such evidences at present, would be as absurd as to stuff a work, intended to display and illustrate the powers of steam and of steam- engines, of gas-lighting, or of balloon-voyag- ing, with classic Greek and Latin quotations. In fact, the scientific institutions of modern times are gradually abandoning the dead lan- guages, and employing the living tongues to describe new discoveries, or improvements in all the arts and sciences. Before the present age, mysterious doctrines exposed the art of healing to severe and just ridicule, and tempted desperate adventurers to promise more than educated men, by assuming some inspired or supernatural power: such quacks preferred to undertake hopeless cases, as cancer and consumption; and when persons
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