Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    practice. If the Americans discovered the virtues of the Bark, it was neither to their philosophy nor to their speculations in na¬ tural history, nor was it to their physiolo¬ gical or to their chemical knowledge, that they were indebted—it was solely to their observation and experience. If, very lately, Dr. Jenner has enriched medicine by one of the most happy and valuable, and to humanity the most consoling of discove¬ ries, it is to observation and experience that it is due. It will be seen in the following cases that I have not neglected general means, when circumstances required them; but I must attribute my success in the ma¬ nagement of an hitherto most obstinate disease, to the activity with which I have employed a remedy, hitherto administered in doses far too small to produce the advan¬ tages which may be derived from its use