Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Seeing into what confufion things have run, why mould we be furprifed if the licentiate comport himfelf as if he were on a par with ihe fellow ? Why wonder, that we who have been matured in the regular difcipline of epif- copalian univerfities, fhould be held in fcarce higher eftimation than thofe who have but juft had time to lick up a mouthful of the hufks of fcience at fome prefbyterian feminary in the North ? In our early days, when the practitioner pro- pofed to himfelf either to attenuate or refolve, or invifcate, or obtund; and when he had opened thefe his indications—not indifcreetly, rib, nequid nimis—to the proper parties, was not as full reliance placed upon his infight, as if he had given them the caufe of the difeafe to hold in the palm of the hand ? Wherever he appeared, did he not infpire reverence ? the friends—were they not all expiation ; the at- tendants—all fubmiflion; the patient—all refig- nation? and he felt comfort eveninrefigning his breath; fo decoroufly was the art exercifed in its minuteft particulars ! But now—nor will you, my valued hippo- cratic friend, call me croaker—fuch has been the effecl of candour, difcuffion, and theuniver- fal