Volume 1
The danger of improving physick: with a brief account of the present epidemick fever / [W. Cockburn].
- William Cockburn
- Date:
- 1730
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The danger of improving physick: with a brief account of the present epidemick fever / [W. Cockburn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ - ] ; fck, and hurries them headlong into their Graves. Whereas, on the contrary, Experience fhews us that Phyfcians, who have been the mod fuccefsful in their Endeavours to difpel this Darknefs, and chalk out plain* though untrodden Paths, unavoidably ex- pofe themfelves to Calumny and Reproach 5 by which means their Difcoveries are often difcredited, and Mankind is deprived of the Benefit, which they would otherwife receive from them. I t is, no doubt, the Intereft of thofe Pretenders to Phyfick, who make a Trade of their Profeffion, to guard againfl: that Veneration, which People naturally con¬ ceive for thofe, who eflablifh a perfect Practice, or give us more familiar No¬ tions of the Nature of Difeafes 5 for as thefe Confpirators againfl Mankind, have generally no Capacity to apprehend fuch ‘Difcoveries themfelves, their chief Fear is, that the People fhould refort to the Difco- verers, and intruft them with the Care of their Health. It is therefore very manifeft, that learned ‘Phyjicians will always be fub- jeft to the Calumny of thefe Men, as the greateft Obftrudors of their Traffick and Gains. T h e Truth is, that we live in an Age, in which Monopolies and Cabals are gene¬ rally condemn'd, and yet as generally en¬ couraged.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31912035_0001_0002.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
