A practical and historical treatise on consumptive diseases / Deduced from original observations, and collected from authors of all ages.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1815
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Credit: A practical and historical treatise on consumptive diseases / Deduced from original observations, and collected from authors of all ages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A TREATISE ON -CONSUMPTIVE DISEASES. BOOK II]. MEDICAL HISTORY. ALTHOUGH we may not expect to obtaifi, from the medical works of the ancients, any ‘great variety of information, immediately ap- plicable to practical purposes, we may still feel a sufficient interest in the history of a sci- ence, which deeply engages our attention, to induce us to inquire, how long the few truths, which are fully established with regard to it, have been sufficiently demonstrated. When in- deed a fact is once well authenticated, no ac- cumulation of authorities can be sufficient to invalidate its credibility ; yet we cannot help placing a greater degree of confidence in opinions, - which we are for other reasons inclined to adopt, when we are informed that they are sanctioned by the observation of the most respectable au- thors of every age. ‘To enter into a minute detail- *