Outlines of medical proof : revised and corrected, with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Outlines of medical proof : revised and corrected, with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. “Is contradictoriness and feebleness of reasoning the art 6f medicine exceeds even other.” So said Michel de Mon- taigne ; having certainly given much thought and attention to what had ken said and written on the subject up to his time. A few years ago, it occurred to me, at a well-known scientific club in London, to hear a distinguished tnemkrof it observe, that IV F was an eminent physician, and not that only, for that he realty was a clever man. Tune, thought I to myself, docs not alter the tendency of society to look upon the medical profession with distrust. Eminence in it confers no presumption of intellectual power or capacity for reasoning. The medicos is still in juxtaposition to the magus, and professes a science which he can neither explain nor prove. The considerations into which I have been led, while putting together the follow ing pages, have recalled to my mind the tacit or open censure involved in the above ex- pressions of opinion, with a mixed feeling as to what they are worth. They are unfair, and yet not ungrounded.