Riddellian system, or, New medical improvements : containing a concise account of the advantages to be expected therefrom. With some illustrative examples ... / by Colonel Riddell.
- Riddell, John.
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Riddellian system, or, New medical improvements : containing a concise account of the advantages to be expected therefrom. With some illustrative examples ... / by Colonel Riddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 6] sound experience; nor any presumptuous use made of it; but such only as will be found warranted by the plainest and most satisfactory proofs ; and if I speak with the utmost confidence of the extensive benefits to be expected from my system and medi- cines, and of the wide range that may be attributed to them, under proper manage- ment, in the cure of diseases, it is from that tried certainty and conviction, which it would be nothing less than folly to resist. It has been confessed by several candid physicians, from Hippocrates to the pre- sent time, who felt themselves above taking shelter behind the superfluous lumber of the Materia Medica, that the effective medicines for all purposes arefew in num- ber, and that all the valuable part of the art for the cure of diseases, might be com- prised within the compass of a few pages. Of the above father of physic it is related, that “ he conquered diseases by destroying “ the seeds of their existence; and that for “ this mighty purpose he used medicines](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28749595_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
