A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Benjamin Smith Barton
Date:
1800
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Credit: A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuppofe, that the ingenious author has fometimes confidered as fpecies what are, in reality, nothing but varieties. This is not an uncommon error among phyficians, particularly among the nofolo- gical writers, who, by unneceffarily dividing fpecies, and by crouding their pages with an intricate no¬ menclature, have eifentially injured the important fcience which fhould teach the appropriate names, the diftin&ions, and the arrangement of difeafes. It is not my intention, in this Memoir, to give an account of the difeafe of goitre in different parts of the world. I have neither the neceffary materials, nor the leifure for fuch a work. Nei¬ ther is it my intention to fay any thing more con¬ cerning this difeafe in Europe, &c. except in fo far as I may deem it neceffary to illuflrate my ac¬ count of the difeafe as it exifls in various parts of North-America. The reader, who wifhes to obtain farther information on the fubjed, may confult the different authors whofe names, and the titles of their works or papers, are mentioned in this me¬ moir. I am not ignorant, however, that feveral refpedable writers, whom I have not mentioned, have written on this difeafe. Their works are not in my poffeffion, and I have fometimes found it difficult to obtain a correct idea of the fads which they relate, and of the opinions and fpeculations which they adopt.
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