Nature in disease : illustrated in various discourses and essays, to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects / by Jacob Bigelow.

  • Bigelow, Jacob, 1787-1879.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Nature in disease : illustrated in various discourses and essays, to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects / by Jacob Bigelow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SELF-LIMITED DISEASES: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 27TH, 1835. [At the beginning of this discourse, the customary obituary notice was taken of eminent members of the society, deceased dur- ing the previous year.] The death of medical men is an occurrence which eminently demands our attention, for it speaks to us of our science, and of ourselves. It reminds us that we, in turn, are to become victims of the incompetency of our own art. It admonishes us that the sphere of our profes- sional exertions is limited, at last, by insurmount- able barriers. It brings with it the humiliating conclusion, that while other sciences have been carried forward, within our own time and almost under our own eye&, to a degree of unprece- dented advancement, Medicine, in regard to some of its professed and most important objects, is