The simple treatment of disease deduced from the methods of expectancy and revulsion / [James Manby Gully].

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883
Date:
1842
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Credit: The simple treatment of disease deduced from the methods of expectancy and revulsion / [James Manby Gully]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. PuysicaL science, like every other process comprised within the circle of the human in- tellect, has ever been the subject of great and, not unfrequently, sudden changes. Opinion, so often linked more closely with the imagination than the reason, again and again decrees that to be folly which had been deemed wisdom, awed by the magnitude of a name, or swayed by the wind of interested prejudice, or over-weening vanity. To question the moral influence of the stars as a part of the science of astronomy, has been, ere now, a madness: to assert that the earth revolves around the sun has been stamped and punished as a heresy; and there was a period when the “ philosopher’s stone” was held a legitimate and attainable aim of chemistry. B