Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson.

  • Simpson, T., M.D.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should, if possible, be of such a character as to obviate many, if not all, the objections which may be urged by the opponents. An accu¬ rate history of the disease ought necessarily to comprise details of all the facts which time has brought to light during its progress, and, independently of a certain amount of valuable testimony thus obtained, will fre¬ quently suggest a series of probabilities, or strong presumptions, in favour of such views as may be established by direct evidence. And, although such probabilities do not of themselves constitute positive evidence, still, if numerous and highly reasonable, they powerfully strengthen and confirm our con¬ viction of the principles established by a series of clearly admitted and well authen¬ ticated facts. That the established economy of nature is effected by certain principles or laws