Observations on the typhus, or, low contagious fever, and on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D.

  • Campbell, D. (David)
Date:
1785
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    few of thofe medicines, that are the moft ufe- fu) and approved, we owe to the iagacity of the learned,and the inductions of fludious fpe- culation: and how many to accidental diicove- ries, and to the praCtice of illiterate perfons, and even of favage and barbarous nations. The implicit obedience, and fervile defe- rence, that was for fo many ages paid to the opinions of Ariflotle, and other antient wri- ters, has been juftly fuppofed to be the caufe which confined our flock of experimental knowledge, during thofe periods, to fo fmail a compafs : and as the evil extended to every branch of fcience, phyfic amongll the reft experienced its torpid influence But as we now live in an age, in which our inclination to obtain a knowledge of fadls, and the phae- nomenaof nature, which we make theground work of our reafoning, is too flrong to be influenced by any blind attachment to mere opinions; which we have feen ma be enter- tained, as erroneoufly by the wifefl and moil enlightened, as by the dulled: and mod un- learned : and as we do not reject the con- clufions which may he fairly deduced, from |nv new diicoveries,in whatever quarter their