Volume 2

First lines on the practice of physic.

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
Date:
1786
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Credit: First lines on the practice of physic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    DCCCLXXXV. . Befides thofe now mentioned, there are probably fome other caufes producing tu- bercles, which have not yet been afcertain- ed by obfervation ; and it is likely, that in the Rate of tubercles there is a variety not yet accounted for: but all this mud be left to future obfervation and inquiry. DCCCLXXXVI. It has been frequently fuppofed by phy- ficians, that the phthifis is a contagious difeafe; and I dare not aflert that it never is fuch: but in many hundred inftances of the difeafe which 1 have feen, there has been hardly one which to me could appear to have arilen from contagion. It is pof- fible, that in warmer climates the effects of contagion may be more difcernible. After having faid that a phthifis arifes from