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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    r ( 4 ) in the progrefs of phyfic; but I will coolly flare unexaggerated fads, and deliberate obfervations. On this fubjed, I cannot refill adding, how cautioufly we fhould permit novelty alone to influence the mind, either in. theory, or in pradice, examples of which, are too numerous, and notorious not to be known, and many too ridiculous to be acknowledged ! Equally fenfible of thefe frailties of our nature, and of the importance of the ex- tenfive, and difficult fubjed, which I have at prefent undertaken, I am filled with ap- prehenfion at the idea of my not being able to purfue it, with fatisfadion to myfelf, or to the world. I therefore would wiffi this attempt to be confidered only as the outlines of a theory, which, if it be founded on any truth, may receive the digeflion of time, i and the corredion of farther experience, and may hereafter be rendered a more per- fect ftrudure.