A treatise on the effects and properties of cold, with a sketch, historical and medical, of the Russian campaign / Translated by John Clendinning, with an appendix.

Beaupre, Moricheau.

Date:: 1826

Credit: A treatise on the effects and properties of cold, with a sketch, historical and medical, of the Russian campaign / Translated by John Clendinning, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Neglect, therefore, of a remedy by practition- ers who have equivalent means at hand, can af- ford, in respect to it, no unfavourable inference. The undue preference above alluded to, given by eminent physicians, to some one of several remedies, or curative plans, is, though insepar- able from humanity, injurious to medicine. Di- minution of his resources by arbitrary amputation of an active member of the materia medica, is, it is true, less felt by the city physician. He can avail himself of many minor aids. But the incon- venience falls heavily on the practitioner remote from large towns. He has not books nor leisure for systematizing and speculating; he must, therefore, look to the city for his theories. Theo- ry must ever guide practice. The country prac- titioner will often find great advantage in know- ing how to turn to account the medicinal proper- ties of the various bodies that surround him , of none more frequently than water. Palm upon him a theory, whether physiological or patholo- gical, that excludes cold from the treatment of a complaint, for which it is in reality proper, and what injury may you not do him ! Even in cities, peculiarities of physical and moral habitude will be met with, rendering some one measure, or set of measures, more convenient than those usually

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