Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases / by William Heberden, M.D.

  • Heberden, William, 1710-1801.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases / by William Heberden, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted^ and three volumes have successively been laid before the public. In 177^ the Royal Society of Medicine in Paris chose him into the number of their Asso- ciates. Besides the observations contained in the present volume. Doctor Heberden was the author of several papers in the Medical Transactions, and of some in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He declined all professional business several years before his death, which Was mer- cifully postponed till the year 1801, when he was advancing to the age of ninety-one. ♦ From his early youth he had always entertained a deep sense of religion, a consummate love of vir- tue, an ardent thirst after knowledge, and an earnest desire to promote the welfare