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First lines of the practice of physic / By William Cullen ; With supplementary notes including the more recent improvements in the practice of medicine by Peter Reid.

William Cullen

Date:: 1802

Credit: First lines of the practice of physic / By William Cullen ; With supplementary notes including the more recent improvements in the practice of medicine by Peter Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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aX ture of proximate caufes, and ‘grafp , fyftem by ‘one * daring’ ‘effort’ of intellect, that’ we have as‘little reafon to wonder at the many ftrange: theories that have béen broached, as at the tenacity with which the ‘moft abfurd of them has béen maintained} nor is it ealy to determine, whether he who’ follows the ’ blind foutine® of empiricifm, | ‘or he whofe “pradiice j is fhaken by the: crude conceptions of every {chool-boy | theorift,’ 1s more to ‘be. pitied. ’ There » is,‘however, a middle way between the creeping round of mere matter of fad men, and the’ airy fancies of thofe who’ foar infinitely beyond the regions of fober fenfe and’ found judgment. “ The “one fhould remember, that without ' “meé- o chanical performances, refined fpeculation | “isan empty dream ; 5 and the other, that © without | theoretical reafoning, dexterity . 98 litle: more. than a brute inftingt waren * Rambler.

First lines of the practice of physic / By William Cullen ; With supplementary notes including the more recent improvements in the practice of medicine by Peter Reid.

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