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A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1738
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Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P. R E F A 6 E. * ring whether that idea he jujl or ade¬ quate. Juft notions of Difiempers can only be had by defeription, or the immediate perception of all their properties or jymp- toms: and the Opinions of different 7nen will differ about them, accord'mg to the op¬ portunities each has had to examine their phenomena. Having thus gained fome imperfebl notion of the Diftemper to be treated, we proceed to afjign the popular Caufes, to which it is generally aferibed; without pofitively af- J’eriing that it is really owing to this or that particular caufe. The true knowledge of immediate caufes is not, perhaps, within the reach of the human tnijjd nor necefary ^to a phyfician. After the caufes of every Diftemper, we # deliver its Diagnoftics, or the diftinguifhing figns and fymptoms with which it generally begins, continues, and goes oft\ And this part gives, as it were, a hiftory of the Dif- eafe. When, therefore, we have feen the figns which diftinguifh any Diftemper fro?n all others, and thus improved the notion given of it by the definition, into a tolerable knowledge; Pis natural to enquire what turns the Diftemper will take, or what will be the fate of the patient under it. And this Enquiry is gratified by a fourth article, under the name of Prognoftics, . which from the figns, or circumftances before