Profluvia ventris: or the nature and causes of loosenesses plainly discovered ... / By W. Cockburn.

  • William Cockburn
Date:
1701
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Profluvia ventris: or the nature and causes of loosenesses plainly discovered ... / By W. Cockburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (\) tied. For my own part, it is grant¬ ed by every Body, but fomc Phyfi- tians, who will never allow it while l live, that I have fallen upon the moft certain method of Curing all the forts of this Difeafe, and indeed no Fact can be better evinc’d: What I in this work aim at, is to give a better ac¬ count of its Nature, and the Maxims of Curing it than ever I think was done before} and upon fuch Princi¬ ples, and in fuch a manner, that even known Med’cins may be ufed with far greater fuccefs, and the probabi¬ lity of Med’cins that are pretended may be determin’d, without trufting altogether to the Integrity of them that offer ’em} whereby Mankind are always impos’d upon without any poflibility of helping it, while they are unable to fix any certain Rule. It is moft furprifing to find fome Men fo Bold as to fay this or that Med'cin is good, ufefnl or hurtful 3 when they never have tried it} nor have, I am fure, any Direction for their Guefs. ’ Ancient In performing this, I (hall equal- Md Modem ly do Juftice to the facrcd Allies of Phyjick our worthy Predeceltors, and to the fmpUytd. Experiments and Difcoveries of thofe. ■ * of
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