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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    With this exposition, I declare myself to be of the philosophic school, still acknowledging great obligations to empirical observers, al- though their cases are often contradictory, and sometimes delusive. The author’s qualifications for the task of publishing the present work rest upon his being an experienced medical officer, equally acquainted with the conditions of the most abject, from belonging to a public hospital during forty years, — with the highest class and the most affluent, from his position in society, — and with his brethren, from his long-continued public duties as a judge of the proficiency of candidates sent for examination from all the professional schools of the three kingdoms. It is not the mere review of diseases and of their causes, but the actual state of the different classes of professional men, of which he under- takes to treat. For if, as he believes it can be shewn, the medical art is, in many parts of it, arrived at such a degree of certainty and rationality as to deserve the title of a science, it may be useful to display the proofs of this scientific character, so that the whole public may be enabled to choose competent attend-