An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester.

  • Baron, John, 1786-1851.
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cumstances for essential characters—and twists all tilings to meet liis own limited conceptions. Hence it becomes so difficnlt, in examining even the works of anthors who claim for themselves the name of practical, to separate facts from the mass of unprofitable and unwarrantable conjec- tures by which they are too frequently encum- bered. These convictions were forced upon me at the commencement of my professional career. Some of the difficulties which they occasioned, will be found detailed in the following pages. It lias been my object to give, as far as it could interest the public, an account of the progress of my own mind in acquiring knowledge; and if every Phy- sician whose opportunities of observation are ex- tensive, would do the same, we might soon accu- mulate that 's})ecics of information which we at present so much stand in need of 1 am well aware of the beiulicial influence of legitimate s])Lculation and theory, on the i)rogress of all branches of knowk^dge. Ihit assurcdlv, in the practical exercise of our art, a greater degree of forbearance and caution than has cnerallv been