A collection of treatises on the effects of sol-lunar influence in fevers, with an improved method of curing them / [Francis Balfour].

  • Balfour, Francis, -1818
Date:
1811
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Credit: A collection of treatises on the effects of sol-lunar influence in fevers, with an improved method of curing them / [Francis Balfour]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in common practice ; and in having discovered and shewn in what manner the revolving tendencies of lunar influence may he applied to concur with these medicines, in their immediate operation, and to maintain and secure their beneficial effects by other means, pre- sumes to believe that he has been instrumental in diffusingthe know- ledge of a successful method of curing fevers, essentially different from the common and prevailing practice of the time at which he communicated this system to the public ; andfarther, in facilitat- ing the application of these several principles to practice, by re- ducing them to a small number of precise, positive, distinct rules, ready at hand to direct and decide the young assistant in his con- duct, when he first takes charge, and needs them most, he has been anxious to render them substantially useful; and to furnish a more appropriate form of conveying medical instruction, than is in general to be found in medical books. But, although the Author has in this volume completed a system which, in all its parts, pretends to improvements of ex- tensive use, he is not so unreasonable as to expect from your Honourable Court a minute enquiry into the foundation of these various pretensions. He wishes solely to draw your at- tention to a single question, which will naturally present itself on the perusal of this appeal: viz. “ lias it been confirmed, by the experience of Physicians 4‘ and Surgeons in India, and other quarters of the globe, that “ the practice recommended by Mr Balfour, in his Treatise t( on Fevers, published in 1790*, has really been more suc- * Copies of this Treatise were presented very soon after its publication, to the Libraries of the University of Edinburgh, of the Royal College of Physi- cians, and of the Royal Medical Society.