A view of the science of life : on the principles established in the Elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. : with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work : and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta / by William Yates & Charles Maclean ; to which is subjoined a treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility ; and a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases ; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere / by Charles Maclean, of Calcutta.

  • Yates, William, active 1797
Date:
1801
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Credit: A view of the science of life : on the principles established in the Elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. : with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work : and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta / by William Yates & Charles Maclean ; to which is subjoined a treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility ; and a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases ; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere / by Charles Maclean, of Calcutta. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    il fpei adolefcentibus exceptaefTet,qui in ilorentifli- tJ mo Ticinenli Archigymnafio falutaris artis ftudiis omnibus mecum incumbunt, pcraduum fane, ^ non fuit eas **** invenire. Many tranfladons and editions of this work, and various criticifms upon it, have appeared in different parts of Europe, which it is by no means neceffary to enumerate here. T^at the knowl- edge of it has alfo made a confiderable progrefs, among the medical pbilofophers of America, is evident from the frequent allufions made to it, in a late publication, by Dr. Rufh^ of Philadelphia. '• The principle of the gradual application of dim- uli to the body, in all the difeafe.s of indirect de- billty on the o*ne hand, and of direct on the oth- er, opens a wide field for the improvement of medicine. Perhaps all the difcovcries of future ages, will confift more in a new application of eftablifhed principle, and in new modes of ex- hibiting old medicine, than in the difcoveries of li new theories, or of new articles of the Materia Medica.* Another proof of the excellence of the doc- trine, no lefs convincing, is deducible from the frequent plagiarifms of its fundamental principles^ by which fome men, defirous of patting them upon the world as their own difcoveries, have lately en- deavoured to eftablifh a reputation for fuperior genius. Any attempt to deteQ thefe, in their various and mod infinite ramifications, would, as Dr. Beddoest very juftly remarks, be now un- * Vlc'n *' An account of the bilious remitting ycL'cv Fevo. —rpige 2:!.]. r h would be injufiice, uj>on ihi« occafion, to oafs ov?r