An improvement in the pathology and treatment of small-pox, upon principles which are applicable to all sthenic diseases / [Robert Stevens].

  • Stevens, Robert (Robert Bocking)
Date:
1838
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Credit: An improvement in the pathology and treatment of small-pox, upon principles which are applicable to all sthenic diseases / [Robert Stevens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. That the writings of medical men are dry and un¬ interesting is a general complaint. It is true, that, in the science of medicine, there is no scope for incident and events, and I fear if the ideal and imaginative faculties, the chief grace of classical composition, were enlisted in the service of the medical philosopher, that he would forfeit his title to the name. I trust when the educated of the community are better acquainted with the data of our ratiocination, that they will as soon think of looking for light incident in the Elements of Euclid, as to expect such amusement in the writings of medical men, whose chief aim should be the eluci¬ dation of cause and effect. Incidents and events claim the chief attention of the lawyer; history and reve¬ lation that of the divine ; whilst the physical sciences are almost exclusively necessary to the study of medi¬ cine. Whether an individual find amusement in the one or the other is completely a matter of taste. They who have brought this charge against us have done so A 2