Volume 1

An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain / [John Cheyne].

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain / [John Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been with a full consciousness that our knowledge of this disease is very im- perfect ; that it has not yet been suf- ficiently investigated; that many of the facts are not yet ascertained ; and that it is the duty of a physician, no less than of a sound philosopher, to be cautious in the admission of hypotheses, indus- trious and careful in the collection of | materials. fs we are thus only in the stage of collection, and not advanced as yet to that of theory, my chief hope of bemg useful rests on the cases which [ have been enabled to lay before the profes- sion; and on the results, neither rash I hope nor unimportant, which I have ventured to draw from them. ‘These cases are not recollections; nor were they ever in danger of being altered, or even coloured by any prevailing or favourite