I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence testimony of eight eminent physcians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints ... / [John Haygarth].

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827
Date:
1813
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Credit: I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence testimony of eight eminent physcians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints ... / [John Haygarth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / i • cines which they have recommended, without any just suspicion that they intended to deceive others. When con¬ clusions are formed from solitary or even a few cases, the danger of mistakes may be clearly understood. But the inference is totally different when many examples concur to prove the efficacy of a remedy. It is for this reason that medical fa<3s, when distinftly discovered, become ex¬ tremely valuable* If many of a similar kind are brought collectively into one view, conclusions may be deduced from them by induction with a probability approaching to certainty. Physicians at first obey the instruc¬ tions of their predecessors, which by de¬ grees they learn to coned! or confirm by their own observations. Even in the same disease, patients, when compared with each other, have some variety of symptoms, or of constitution. One case is