Lectures on the duties and qualifications of a physician / By John Gregory.

  • John Gregory
Date:
1772
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Credit: Lectures on the duties and qualifications of a physician / By John Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    children. They at firft believe every thing that is told them to be true ; and it is experience alone which teaches them to reftrain this natural propenfity. Dr. \ Reid has treated this fubjed with great acutenefs, in his ingenious Enquiry into the Human Mind. We obtain experience, either by the evidence of our own fenfes, or by the teftimony of others. i. The teftimony of out fenfes, though generally confidered as one of the high- eft degrees of evidence, is often fallacious, and often defedive. The lenfations ex¬ cited in us, in confequenee of impreftions made on our organs of lenfe, depend on the following circumftances : On the ftate of the medium through which the communication between the ob]eds and the organs of fenfation is made, e. g. the ftate of the air, when we fpeak of vifible objeds.
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