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On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutical agent / by Baron D. J. Larrey ; Translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison.

  • Larrey, D. J. (Dominique Jean), baron, 1766-1842.
Date:
1822
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Credit: On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutical agent / by Baron D. J. Larrey ; Translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the supposed means. Under the Stahlian doc- trine, or what has been called by the French, La Médecine Expectante, and of which there are at this day several followers, we cannot but be struck with the number of cures which take place in diseases, where, from the peculiar doctrine of the practitioner, they are left principally to na- ture; yet had any one of the alterative remedies, which have been so extolled at different periods, been administered, the issue would have been most certainly ascribed to it, and the number of false facts*, as Dr. CULLEN would have called them, been considered sufficient to authorize a fresh addition to the already overstocked cata- logue of the Materia Medica. Nothing can prove so strongly the necessity of the physical sciences forming part of the education of the medical practitioner, as the bad reasoning which is every day observable, respecting cause and effect: the study of physics necessarily habituates the mind to philosophical induction, and if a better capa- bility of tracing effects to their causes were the * Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, by Ducazp STEWART, Esq. F, R. 8. Ed. vol ii. p. 440.