A few suggestions on consumption / by Robert Hull.

Date:
[1849]
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Credit: A few suggestions on consumption / by Robert Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    But is not the body medical, beyond the collegiate domain, sensible of your good deeds ? It acknowledges your classical Gul- stonian Lectures on Rheumatism. It is eminently indebted for an Harveian Oration, specially adapted to these degenerate days, when monstrous management of the patient world is displayed by practitioners, who are, notwithstanding, appointed to public chari- ties, met in private consultations. Is the medical art destined to undergo a fatal fall ? Is the sober, the philosophic, the logical, to yield before the transcendental nonsense of Homceopathy ? Is sensual Mesmerism to spread over the country, until the cold-blooded, infidel, Bas- Bleu, and adolescent, ingenuous gentle- women are equally boasted of, as en rapport, by the -4rcA-physicians of the sect? Is Hydropathy, Hke a second flood, to overwhelm the land ? May we not fear