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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    feldom, and trufts entirely to his memory ? Certainly : and the better the cafe is known, the better chance the Patient Hands, beyond all doubt. So that, take it which way you will, a wile and diligent oblerver will al¬ ways have the advantage of any other Phy- fician, who either has not skill enough to obferve, or time enough to write. Befides the advantages already mention’d, if it was cuftomary, or fafhionable, among us, to treat our patients thus, as I hope it will in time * fo many idle pieces wou d not be publilh/d from year to year, to the Ican- dal of Phyfick, and the lhame of Phyfi- cians. Such ignorant pretenders would be treated as they ought; the Art wou’d ga¬ ther ilrength, and flourilh more and more; and all contempt and ridicule, for which, I fear, there is at prelent too much realbn, would be quite out of countenance. Nay I make no doubt, but if a fet of Phyficians, of fufficient abilities, would undertake it heartily, and confine themfelves to Obferva- tions in the plaineft and fimpleft manner, without any regard to the fancies and opi¬ nions of others, and would candidly com¬ municate their obfervations to one another from time to time, they would be able, in a few years, to write as well upon the Dif- cafes of England, as ever Hippocrates did upon thole of Greece, &c. at leaft they would certainly be able to write the fecond D ^beft
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