Fallacies of the faculty : with the principles of chrono-thermal medicine / by Samuel Dickson.

  • Dickson, Samuel, 1802-1869.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Fallacies of the faculty : with the principles of chrono-thermal medicine / by Samuel Dickson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PRELIMINARY REMARKS. It was a saying of the sculptor Canova — Englishmen always see with their ears. The following pages are in- tended for Englishmen who will see and examine with their eyes! During many years back it has been the annual custom at the London College of Physicians, for one of the Eellows to deliver an oration in Latin, commemorative of the discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by the great Harvey. The Orator of the year is chosen by the President of the College for the time being, and to him the oration is submitted before it is read to the assembled members. Whatever statements it contains have, therefore, the official sanction of the highest authority of the College. In the Oration for 1860, delivered in June of that year by Dr. Page, there occur certain statements, which, for the convenience of such of my readers as happen to be ignorant of Latin, I shall translate as literally as the idiom of our own language will permit. The exact words will be found in a foot-note. Reduced to English, Dr. Page's statements run thus :— In the beginning of this century, the favourite practice of physicians was Depletion in all its forms, [meaning thereby the abstraction, during a state of corporeal dis- repair, of the living material of all repair, by bleeding, leeching, cupping, purging, &c]