Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton.

  • Francis Clifton
Date:
1731
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Credit: Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [I6]. Ihould have had fo few Artifts ? The Strufture of the Body is well known • the Materials we work with are known too; and nothing remains but a more perfect knowledge of Dil- eales. Hard, that we cannot compals that! For my part, I fee no reafon why we may not, provided we let about it in earneft. At leaft it is worth while to try. The corn- pleat knowledge of one diftemper wou'd be, perhaps, as a key to all the reft; or if not, we Ihou d be better able to deal with the reft : and who can tell, if we allow'd our folves time to find 'em [out, but that they woud all appear as regular in their courfes as any other Phenomena; and poffibly might be curd as eafily as they are now contracted? If it Ihou'd ever come to that, it wou'd be a fine improvement of the Art indeed; and yet I fee no manner of reafon why we Ihould delpair of it. Many things in nature, as hard .as this, have been conquer'd; and are now within the compals of common un- derftandings. Befides, the experiment is at¬ tended with no manner of inconvenience or hazard to the Patient, (a circurnftance well worth confidering) but on the contrary ma- nifeftly tends to his greateft Security. For if a Phyfician has skill enough to examine him right, and will be at the pains to fet his caie down from day to day, is it not much more likely, that he Ihould be a bet¬ ter judge of the cafe, than one who fees him
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