Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster.

  • Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster. 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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    S there is no medical theory, formed from in- duction, to enable us to deteCt what is erroneous or falfe in the accounts of faCts, or to direCt us in the treatment of new cafes; the following attempt to conneft with an important organ many othervvife loofe faCts, may tend to facilitate the recolleCtion and application of them, and thus abridge the range of inquiry. The number fuggefted by this view is fo great, that there is lefs difficulty in the collection than in the choice; their relation and order, familiar only to one’s own habit of affociation, may to others at firft be obfeure ; and fome of them may be difputed ; but the leading ones feem to fhow that the Itomach is the feat of life, difeafe, and recovery, and the main organ of a complicated fyftem. Many authorSj as Vanhelmont, Rega, Bordeu, Lacaze, Barthez, Fouquet, and particularly Mr. Hunter, lean, in their ufeful writings, to the opinion held in this fummary, which was meant as part of heads of leftures on Materia Medica, read in Edinburgh feveral years ago. The farther application of the doCtrine to prac- tice, will probably appear foon. CHARLES WEBSTER.