An essay on the diseases of the head and neck. To which is added, a dissertation on the gout and rheumatism / [J.N. Stevens].

  • Stevens, J. N
Date:
1758
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the head and neck. To which is added, a dissertation on the gout and rheumatism / [J.N. Stevens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As there is nothing on earth really perfect, errors will of oourfe attend all human performances: But in this I have the fatisfadion of not being guilty of any wilful error, and therefore may reafonably conclude I fhall not be ceiifured by the generous part of mankind, and men of learning: And as for others, I neither regard their approbation, nor frowns; fince the good of mankind in .general has been my only view; which, I hope, will in fome meafure atone lor the imperfedions of this work, and guard it againft the weak aflaults of the malicious critic. Information is always acceptable to a generous mind, who judges impartially of the real properties, and effential. nature of things, according to the beft light of unprejudiced reafon. And if any perfon, of fuperior judgment, would be fo kind and generous as to convince me of my errors, I fhall efteem that perfon as my friend, and immediately make a public acknowledgment of it; as I am well affured, that it is more honourable to fubmit to convidion, when drawn from the genuine laws of nature, than to perlift upon a bafelefs foundation, in oppofition thereto. ,;r v W X * \ \ _^r ’ ^ .1 i ' • >'r; « . . _> } . i ) V >. .'I ‘\i (fc •.;,'j When God at firft created man, and placed in him that fmall portion of his fpirit; he did not ddign him to pene¬ trate into the moil minute recedes of his works, nor to be perfedly acquainted with the original caufes and immutable effeds of fublunary beings: No, the Almighty created that mafs of matter call’d man, as a recepticle for that portion of his fpirit placed therein ; to prove him, try whether he would