Volume 3

Medical sketches, in two parts / By John Moore.

  • Moore, John, 1729-1802
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches, in two parts / By John Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' MEDICAL SKETCHES, 59 cumfpection during the courfe of our ex- _ perience, left this very experience confirm us in error. This thews how very prepofterous it is - to put reafoning in oppofition to experience in the practice of phyfic, fome degree of ' theory or reafoning being abfolutely necef- {ary to direct our experiments, and after- wards as neceflary to enable us to draw juft conclufions from them, and to apply them ufefully ; not only in cafes in all refpe@s _ fimilar, but alfo in thofe which, differing in fome particulars, ftill have a general analogy. — is. 7 ‘He who derives his medical knowledge from books alone, and whofe exalted no- tions have not been moderated by expe= rience, will’ pra€tife medicine as the phi- - lofopher who declaimed on the art of war to Hannibal, would have commanded ‘an army; he who'has feen much, practice without >