Volume 17

The study of medicine / By John Mason Good.

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827.
Date:
1822
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    thor trusts that whatever doctrines are advanced will, at least, be found true to themselves and form a digested system operating in accordance they may be affected by future investigations. He trusts, it will also be found that nothing is newly started for the mere sake of novelty, or controverted from a mere love of disputa- tion: and that whenever it has been his mis- fortune to differ from high authorities which have preceded him, he has done it with the can- dour which should peculiarly characterise a li- beral profession. His main object has been to explain to the student the different subjects that pass before him, and to illustrate them by ana- logies, instead of confining himself to a dry and wearisome history of morbid symptoms and ope- rations. | In rHERAPEvTics the author has allowed him- self a liberal range, and has, occasionally, in- troduced into his Materia Medica substances that are highly esteemed abroad, though little valued or even known at home, or that seem, without reason, to have fallen into temporary disrepute. There are some practitioners who think that all the articles which are of real use in the cure of diseases lie within a small com- pass, and may be learnt without burthening the memory. ‘This remark may ‘be allowed to