Letters addressed to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on consumption : containing remarks on the efficacy of equable and artificial temperature in the treatment of that disease / by Thomas Sutton.

Date:
1814
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Credit: Letters addressed to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on consumption : containing remarks on the efficacy of equable and artificial temperature in the treatment of that disease / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    therefore, are soon convinced of the pro- priety of adopting a different temperature to that in which the patient is supposed to have contracted the disorder. Besides, popular sentiments - on subjects relating to health, and even of medical men on these subjects, must never be held to be absolutely decisive of a question; because we have very many and convincing proofs, that opinions which were support- ed and tenaciously maintained on these questions, have been found to be wrong, and even acknowledged to be pernicious. Among the catalogue of these I trust the subject of gout will, by universal consent, in a few years, be inserted: and I doubt not, that the astonishment, in after times, of medical men, will be excited at the folly of niankind and the profession; the one party for submitting themselves to an evil, such as the gout is, by promoting the continuance of the disease to the great detriment of their health, the de^ struction of their future happiness and