Air, food, and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / [A. Rabagliati].

  • Rabagliati, A. (Andrea Carlo Francesco), 1843-
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: Air, food, and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / [A. Rabagliati]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the subjects in question have been considered/' In proportion to the extent of the experience, and still more in proportion to the closeness of the attention which we have been able to bestow on our experience, will be the value of the resultant opinion. It would be for the most part, quite impossible to analyse the various factors, which, in the aggregate go to form an opinion. No memory could carry the details. Only the net result can be given, and everyone will have his own estimate as to the value of this resulting view. For himself the writer can only say that closer inquiry at the oracle of nature, on the part of a mind, so far as he knows, perfectly candid and impartial at the outset, and more extended observation of disease has not made him less hopeful, but, on the contrary, much more hopeful in advising patients. Even if this state of mind should prove to be founded on delusion, he is thankful for an honest belief in a hopeful delusion. Hope is too uncommon, and pessimistic fear is on the other hand too common an attitude of mind, not to be thankful for the existence of the one, nor to rejoice heartily for the disappearance of the other. But he is convinced that it is no delusion, his general experience of practice founded on better views encouraging him every, day to believe that, as his vision has become clearer, so his powers of help are greater than they were before. There are many disappointments still; but great as they are, they are fewer than formerly.
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