Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood.

Date:
1793
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Credit: Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    we not hope, that, from repeated attempts, its theory may be gradually enlightened, and one of the crowded avenues to the grave may be clofed? And may we not alfo fafely predid, judging from the rapid progrefs acquired in the knowledge of philofophy, and medicine, within a very few late years, that, by fimilar attempts, every difeafe, whofe nature is any way ob- fcure, may be at laft clearly explained, and the profeflbrs of medicine may find them- felves in pofTeffion of the Ne plus ultra, of the temple of truth itfelf ? To obtain this happy refult of the efforts of united genius, an objed which almoft dazzles the perfpedive eye, we muft more clofely purfue the path of fimple nature, and be convinced, the nearer we are to her, the fooner we will approach the end ; al- ready has all our additional knowledge proved this fad; and, ftrange to refled, it appears to be the chief labour of the pre- fent