Curability of consumption : with cases and observations / by Dr. Browne.

  • Browne, I. C. (I. C.), Dr.
Date:
[between 1850 and 1869?]
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Credit: Curability of consumption : with cases and observations / by Dr. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    possibility of cure, when the faculty for centuries up to the present time, had declared the attempt an impossibility, as the disease was “utterly incura¬ ble AND NEVER TO BE CURED.” These are hard words and would strike terror into the heart of many a sanguine physician, perhaps deter him from making an effort to effect relief, for fear of bringing on his own devoted head, the con¬ dign indignation of his seniors in the profession, for daring to entertain opinions contrary to their superior (quasi) judgement and experience. “Never” is a long word, and requires most cau¬ tious use in these days of skill and enterprise, when shortly the world will be encircled with a thought that will traverse from the mind of one man to the other, from almost pole to pole, and it may be only after the faint type of more transcendant means be¬ tween the petty compass of man’s poor mind and the impress of the Eternal, who knows ? wherefore then shall “never” prevail. It has been the privilege of chemistry to interpret many of the once hidden mysteries of nature’s laws and works, and as science and arts increase, so un -
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