On winter cough,catarrh, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest / by Horace Dobell.

Date:
1866
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    ox WINTER COUGH, CATAEEH, BEONCHITIS, EMPHYSEMA, ASTHMA, WITH AN APPENDIX ON SOME PRINCIPLES OF DIET IN DISEASE, A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST. LONDON: JOHN CHURCHILL & SONS, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. MDCOOLXVI.
    LONDON: PRINTED BT J. WERTHEIMER AND CO., CIRCUS PLACE, FINSHURY CIRCUS.
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    peculiar property of the sage. That it cannot be trans- ferred or transmitted to others is, perhaps, the chief cause of the slow advance of intellectual progress from age to age. The tendency of the world has been to disregard authority in proportion as the means and facilities of recording facts have multiplied; so that, in the present day, the wisdom of the sage, if unsupported by the record of his experience, is scarcely valued at the price of the hasty conclusions of a novice, who may have picked out and recorded a few facts by which they seem to be sup- ported. The danger of this tendency is, that society may drift into the disbelief of everything; for, if we first disbelieve in every conclusion which is not supported by recorded facts, that is to say, if we disbelieve in the opinions of wise men unless the whole course by which they arrived at those opinions be demonstrated, the next step is to doubt the correctness of all recorded facts, however good the authority of the recorder; and thus, when the demonstration has been given, to doubt its correctness still. Nevertheless, there is wisdom in this incredulity, if kept within proper bounds. Though it may apparently retard the progress of truth, if the steps that we are per- mitted to take are made more secure, by being taken slowly, our advancement will be quicker in the end. It is, then,