A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. T' HE greater part of the following Memoir was written in the winter of 1797—1798, fooit sifter my return from my journey through the weft- ern parts of the ftate of New-York. It was read to a very refpeCtable clafs of gentlemen, who attended my courfe of lectures on the Materia Medica, in that feafon, and again in the winter of 1798—1799* I eonfefs that the paper was origi¬ nally drawn up for the prefs; and I intended that it fhould have been publifhed at a much earlier pe¬ riod than the prefent. From time to time, I de¬ layed the publication, in hopes of being able to communicate fomething more worthy of the notice of phyficians, and of men of fciencei Unfortu¬ nately, howrever, I have been difappointed in my expectations of receiving information from a quar¬ ter where it would have been moft eafy to have procured anfwers to my queries. I now fling the memoir upon the public, much more from a defire to draw forth information, than from any hope of com* municating a great deal that is new.