The simple treatment of disease deduced from the methods of expectancy and revulsion / James Manby Gully.

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The simple treatment of disease deduced from the methods of expectancy and revulsion / James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of electric influence, of light and heat, of air and aliment, of sound and objects of sight, of smell and subjects of touch, and, cc last not least,” of the mind, at once the despot and the slave of it’s crumbling envelop, the body. Nothing but that divine spark within us, which kindles the desire of knowledge, and lightens the oftentimes darkened path of the student of physical science, could ever afford the necessary courage to face the array of obstacles in the way of his attainment of that portion of it which includes the phenomena of vitality, if his aim is to seek the truth, and not the corroboration of speculative opinions. That these last have always abounded in Physiology, is not therefore so much to be wondered at. The constantly broken chain of facts made similar breaks in that of causality, and loose analogies or imper- fect inductions were too tempting, in the dearth of stronger concatenations, not to be seized upon, and erected into irrefragable dogmas. From Hermes Trismegistus, and his idea of the nature of Life, down to the end of the seventeenth century, when Whytt and theVitalists flourished, we accordingly find all kinds of speculations, advanced as inevitable truths, touching the