The means of preserving health and prolonging life, applied to hereditary diseases; the affections of children; and the disorders of old age. Comprising the result of fifty years' experience, derived from hospital and private practice / [Sir Anthony Carlisle].

  • Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840
Date:
1841
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The means of preserving health and prolonging life, applied to hereditary diseases; the affections of children; and the disorders of old age. Comprising the result of fifty years' experience, derived from hospital and private practice / [Sir Anthony Carlisle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/228
    was formerly considered the best. The modern order is, however, different, since the knowledge of the circulation of the blood, of the vascular, muscular, and nervous structures has been carefully and exactly explained, and since the composition and physical properties of all ani- mal substances have been chemically investi- gated. The art of healing must ever continue to be an intricate and perplexing profession, whether exercised according to the methods laid down by the empirical school, or followed as a science; for the empirical practitioners must exercise a continued and exact attention to observe the signs of diseases, and to record the several good or bad effects of their treatment, before they can be competent to understand the compli- cated causes and effects presented to their ex- perience; and hence, this method of practice necessarily requires a vast knowledge of pre- cedents, before the individual is even capable of discerning and of discriminating facts; and then it happens, as in the profession of the law, that every new case having some peculi- arity which renders the rule of precedent difficult or unsafe to be applied, a new judg-