A Practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839.
Date:
1803
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Credit: A Practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    and truth. The result may be called theory; but a collection of inferences drawn from facts, is entitled to practical confidence, and a sanction which can never be given to any theory founded on mere hypothesis. But inferences, from facts, will not always be the same; and I am far from assuming that mine are infallible. I have attempted a method that is apparently proper, and it has produced me a portion of success on which I reflect with satisfaction. Theories, built upon hypothetical founda- tions, are one cause of the turn for quackery that infests this country: and an authorita- tive delivery of principles that are confuted by nature, may be as injurious to the credit of physic here, as the tenets of blind bigotry in other countries have been to the professed objects of morals and religion. And yet it is to be lamented, that useful research in medicine is frequently disdained ; and, that copious as the materia medica is, the high-sounding praise of some new article.