Volume 2

Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples / [Sir Gilbert Blane].

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples / [Sir Gilbert Blane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ciety much is left to reason, as is observa- ble in the helpless condition of the infant In every situation of human life. From these considerations, it is obviously in ac- cordance with the wise and beneficent ar- rangements of Providence in other depart- ments of creation, that compensation should be made by reason’s proving a corrector of evils which reason had induced, so that ar- tificial ills should be counteracted by artifi- cial remedies. This is presumable a priorz from the analogy of nature; but it is not only presumable, but incontestably true in fact, that most diseases are more or less under the controul of art; and one could be named of such potent malignity as would have gone far towards the extinction of the human race, by striking at the very source of life, had it not been resisted by the power of art. This example i is drawn from curative medicine, but instances equally Important and convincing might be quoted from the history of preventive medicine, in the various means which have been devised and practised for obviating and extinguish- ing infections, engendered by the artificial