Volume 1

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nature, left to herfelf, with her conftant philanthropy, did her ufual good office ; . and the patient, even in very ferious dif- eafes, wondered at finding himfelf grown well, he could not imagine how, with having had fo little or no phific crammed down his throat. But when this fame Tronchin was inad- vifedly drawn in, though but fpeculatively, to depart from this admirable fimplicity of nature, he paid the forfeit of his complai- fance to the fafhion. For in a treatife of his, on a diftemper that went by the name of the Cholic of Poitou, where he finks into the pe'dantic jargon of his art, in which words are fo currently given for things? form for fubftance, he makes no better a figure than that of one of your common dodors or rank-and-file regulars of the medical profeffion. Mean
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