Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.

Date:: 1830

Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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practical information; for the farther ad- vancement of the medical art chiefly rests on the gradual but continued accumulation of individual contributions. I consider it as a principle (says Dr. Black) admirably good in itself, and in its application promotive of the interests of science and humanity, that every professional man should contribute his quota towards a general fund, from which we may expect to derive accurate histories of disease*.^ The author is fully sensible of the indul- gence which the work requires from his me- dical brethren; but relying on the liberality of the profession, he submits it with much deference to their judgment; and if he only succeeds in adding one to the number of means already proposed for the alleviation of human misery, he will consider his labours both usefully employed and amply rewarded. * Clinical and Pathological Reports, page 111.

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