A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip ; with notes and appendices by J.H. Miller.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip ; with notes and appendices by J.H. Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. Much as may be deprecated, the necessity under which American writers are compelled to resort to the aid of foreigners to insure them a reception or notice, even by their own countrymen, the desire of communi- cating some observations and inductions that are pecu- liar, has forced a reluctant consent to the practice of ap- pending our ideas to the works of another. The sense of degradation inseparably connected with the conscious- ness of dependency, is in a great measure obviated in the present instance by the choice of an usher; for what brow, however haughtily independent, need be suffused with the blush of shame, upon an introduction to the world under the auspices of Wilson Philip? Few have made themselves a brighter or more extended reputation, and none possesses a mantle under whose voluminous folds, a novice can better hope to hide his defects. The innovations in the principles of medicine to which I lay claim, are the results of experiments, observations and reflections, begun more than twenty years ago, and continued up till the present time. Whilst yet a young student of anatomy, unsatisfied by the demonstrations of the nerves by my venerated preceptor, and their de- scriptions given by the best writers of that period, and particularly what they denominated the great sympathe-