A brief treatise on the pathology and cure of consumption / by Dr. M. Freligh.

  • Freligh, M. (Martin), 1813-1889.
Date:
1851
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Credit: A brief treatise on the pathology and cure of consumption / by Dr. M. Freligh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    veals (as I have nlready remarked,) the fact that consumption can be cured by positive indication. Notwithstanding the opinion of the profession to the reverse, so very generally regarding it as an incurable disease ; that it has proven a paralysing incubus, to the investigation of its true pathological character; and ever will be thus regarded, and doubly substantiated by their practice, until they cease to act upon the old Latin proverb Via, trita, via tuta, which provides more ease for the doctor, than safety to the invalid. But what is to be expected in way of advancement, from those who can only see Geography in Strabo, Philosophy in Plato, whose only theology is in Scotus and Aquinus, andwhose medical ethics are only to be found in Hippocrates, the eighteenth lineal descendant from JEscu- lapius. Truly may we exclaim in the language of Virgil, Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas ! ^Ll&J