Memoirs of medicine : including a sketch of medical history, from the earliest accounts to the eighteenth century / by Richard Walker, Esq. apothecary to the Prince of Wales.

Walker, Richard (Apothecary)

Date:: 1799

Credit: Memoirs of medicine : including a sketch of medical history, from the earliest accounts to the eighteenth century / by Richard Walker, Esq. apothecary to the Prince of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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But the mofl: rational and moft ufefiil of medical theories, partaking the imperfeft nature of the materials with which they are conftrufted, will ever be hable to per- verfion, when,-by fuperfeding attention to nature's diftates, they give conceit to inex- perience, and £11 young praftitioners with the confcious firmnefs of veteran adepts. And here it may be fafely alTerted, that many aphoriftical do6lrines in prefent vogue, ^ which treat every part of a complicated art by very general and concife forms of claffi- fication, well fuited to the reliOi and confi- dence of youth, have a dire61: tendency, both to encourage the prefumption of idlenefs and ignorance, and to difcredit and obfcure that moft ufeful knowledge of difeafes, which is acquired by minute attention to their peculiar chara61ers, and to the idiofyn- crafy and varying condition of patients, which the bold Tyro of modern pra6]:ice rarely condefcends to obferve. With the effential imperfections of medi- cine depending on it's natural uncertainty, many extrinfic, local, and temporary cir- cumftances,

Memoirs of medicine : including a sketch of medical history, from the earliest accounts to the eighteenth century / by Richard Walker, Esq. apothecary to the Prince of Wales.

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