Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French of G.L. Bayle by William Barrow.

Date:
1815
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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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    its forms, as the gardener distinguishes the plants which he cultivates at every period of their growth, and as the entomologist knows an insect in all its metamorphoses ? I am well aware that the practitioner will still find obscurity; but he ought not to persist in denying, either during life or after death, the traces of a disease already apparent, though it does not yet exhibit all the symptoms, all the injury that it will present when further ad- vanced. If I have attached so much importance to this discussion, it is because it was indispensable with respect to what is observed of those indi- viduals who die in the first stages of pulmonary consumption, and without as yet exhibiting the symptoms of that disorder. It was besides use- ful to combat some celebrated prejudices, and to reduce to its just value a fallacious denomi- nation. Nothing is so strong as the influence of language ; and it is admitted, that erroneous denominations, equivocal definitions, and false observations, invoke in their train error, con- fusion, and the most serious faults, particularly in sciences which, like medicine, offer practical applications.
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