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Pathological observations / [Gulielmus Stoker].

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848
Date:
1823-1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pathological observations / [Gulielmus Stoker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jaw, or when that position was no longer tenable, adopt the arguments, exclusively, which induced a conviction of their previous mistakes, and (nil desperandum) persuade themselves that a new system, totally opposed to that which had so per- niciously misled them, would at once advance the cause of science and humanity. ‘* The hu- ‘*man mind (says Luther) is like a drunken pea- *< sant on horseback ; when we put it up on one ‘side it falls down on the other.’’* Were nothing farther indeed involved than the talents, learning, or. even integrity of those en- gaged in forming the opposed systems of the pathology of the fluids and solids, both might justly claim:a large share of our admiration ;. but unhappily, however pure the intentions of the opponents, however great the ability with which they have conducted the dispute, it is, I think, to be apprehended that the strife has been most structive of human life, as much so EERE 3 any other of those which were contemporaneous with it. An ingenious and able medical writert trac- ing (in a modern work) the revolutions of medical science, introduces the once generally ad- opted humoral pathology in terms, which, in some * Germany, by Baroness Stael Holstein, vol. 3. page 14. +. Sketch of the Revolutions of Medical’ Science, by P. ‘J, G, Cabanis, &c. &c, translated by A. Henderson, M.D. London, 1806,, page 152, ie “ ee, ’
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