Medical sketches : in two parts / by John Moore, M.D.

  • Moore, John, 1729-1802.
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches : in two parts / by John Moore, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    made, turn it to more ufeful purpofes. His fuperior talents will then come into play; by refleaing on the fymptoms of difeafes, the means which natm-e fome- times takes to relieve or terminate them, and the antilogy between one difeafe and another, he will apply the powers dif- covered in the two plants more judicioufly, and with a greater probability of fuccefs to the cure of diftempers. The earlieft praditioners in medicine, having no recorded fads or rules to direft them, formed the one, and colleded the 'mher, by a diligent attention to nature.— They obferved an inftind in dogs and fome other animals, that direded them to par- ticular herbs, which feemed to relieve them in ficknefs. Melampus, a Greek, one of the earlieft who attempted to cure difeafes, is faid to have difcovered the cathartic quality of hellebore,