Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Celsus, one of the fineft writers among the ancient phyficians, and Sir George Baker* a very learned and eminent modern, have ohferved, that the practice of phyfc rarely admits of any perpetual precepts and he will be very apt to err, who will not, as he may find occalion, deviate from authorities, and follow the didlates of his own judge¬ ment and difcretion, as they arife from the cafe before him. Medical Effays. P. 283. ‘The art indeed is long, and life is fhort. It behoves every one, however, to be as ferviceable as he can; and negledt nothing that may keep a-while a fellow- creature from the grave. Perhaps ne¬ gligence in fuch matters may not be coniigned with the patient to forgetful- nefs. The great Boerhaave thought, that in another world he might be ac¬ countable for his conduct in this, as a / 1 phyfician. F I N I S.