Sequel to Outlines of medical proof / by Thomas Mayo.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Sequel to Outlines of medical proof / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER IV. The present work must be left incomplete—why—contributions to it drawn exclusively from normal medicine—in consequence of abnormal medicine not being explored by us—grounds for extending lesearch in that direction—Homoeopathy, Mesmerism, Hydropathy, considered in reference to these grounds. If at one time I designed to fill up tlie Outlines of Medical Proof, tlie experience which I have had of the na- ture of the task in putting together the preceding pages, would convince meof the hopelessness of the undertaking. To embrace all the forms of thought bearing upon proof in reference to my subject, is an impossibility. Every modification of proof, if carefully looked into, resolves itself into infinite subdivisions, from inquiring into which we are not exempted by their minuteness. Eor this is unreal. That which is small at one period of the in- quiry is great at another : it enlarges under the micro- scope of thought, and on the discovery of new facts. Hygienic and medical principles, which are now scarcely nascent, will eventually be of the same dimensions with those on which we at present act, and the laws of ex- periment and observation will be modified in relation to their new subject-matter. The profitable way of con- ducting an inquiry thus continuous and infinite, would be through successive instalments. Mr. Green has
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