A practical essay on the small-pox, etc. Together with an inquiry into the rise ... of this disease / [William Hillary].

  • Hillary, William, -1763.
Date:
1740
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Credit: A practical essay on the small-pox, etc. Together with an inquiry into the rise ... of this disease / [William Hillary]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but fo far as they do thus, they are Theorifts. Why then will they condemn others, for what they allow as laudable and neceffary in themfelves ? Limagine that if the Caufe of their Bebaviour in this refpect, was explained, it would not reflect much Honour to thofe who fo xealoufly declaim againft Theories. One would think, that it is unnecefary to ufe many Arguments to determine Mens Choice; whether it is more eligible to guit our Reafon for Myftery, and — Matter of Facts for cuftomary Opinions, which are often abfurd; and Jo fuffer ourfelves to wander through the endlefs Mazes of imaginary Hypothefes, which lead us to play at Hazard with Mens Lives: Or rather, by clofely obferving the Proce/s of Nature, from certain and evident Caules, endeavour to difcover the true Nature and Difpofition of the Difeafe, the Manner of producing its Symptoms, and the Ways which Nature indicates for her Relief, fo that we may afift her agreeably to her own Laws, by