[Domestic medicine].

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
[1786+]
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    i * INTRODUCTION. nnawcd by authority, and unbiafled by intereft., they would canvafs with freedom the moft uni-- verfally received principles in Medicine, and ex.- pofe the uncertainty of many of thofe doctrines, o i which a phyfician dares not fo much as feem tc. doubt. No argument, continues he, can be brough againft laying open Medicine, which does no apply with equal, if not greater force, to religion yet experience has fliewn, that fince the laity hav.. afferted their right of enquiry into thefe fubjeds^ Theology, conlidered as a fcience, has been im proved, the interefts of real religion have been promoted, and the clergy have become a mor learned, a more ufeful, and a more refpeflabl body of men, than they ever were in the days co their greateft power and fplendor. Had other medical writers been as honed as this gentleman, the art had been upon a ver: different footing at this day. Moft of them extc the merit of thofe men who brought Philofoph. out of the fchools, and made it the fcience of mar. kind. But they never confider that Medicine prelent is in nearly the fame lituation as Philofc. phy was at that time, and that it might be as muc improved by being treated in the fame mannet Indeed, no fcience can either be rendered ration or ufeful, but by being fubmkted to the commco fenfe and reafon of mankind. Thefe alone ftam a value upon fcience; and what will not bear tl tsft of thefe, ought to be rejeded. I KNOT 2