Modern medicine : containing a brief exposition of the principal discoveries and doctrines that have occasioned the recent advancement of medical philosophy : with strictures on the present state of medical practice, and an enquiry how far the principles of the healing art may become the subjects of unprofessional research / David Uwins.

  • Uwins, David.
Date:
1808
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    or the success with which the priests prescribed, when we advert to the almost' unlimited power of fanaticism and imposture, both in religion and medicine, over the minds, ay, and the bodies of men, even in the present day of boasted freedom, from the stratagems of the designing few. It is worthy notice, that the Greek word from which we derive the English appellative of pharmacy, literally signifies a charm; and how many are there of modern maladies which, ob- stinately resisting the pharmacy of our shops, yield with facility to the pharmacy of the Greeks. The quackery of the priests of Esculapius, and that of the proprietor of metallic tractors, how- ever they may differ in form, are the same in effect. Medicine thus continued to be united to religion, until the curiosity characteristic of man, when in any degree elevated above the mere sen- suality of savage existence, induced him to en- quire into the causes of those phenomena of which nature is so abundant in its display. But with the desire of knowledge, an almost entire