More new truths : being a sequel to those contained in the late work, "Important advice to the world" with regard to their health / James Morison.

  • James Morison
Date:
1825
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Credit: More new truths : being a sequel to those contained in the late work, "Important advice to the world" with regard to their health / James Morison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    giving bark, you have driven the humours back into the system, to make their appearance again in some other shape. By all these pro- ceedings you have not in the least diminished the real cause of the disorder, but you have diminished the strength and energy of the patient; and instead of curing, have entailed on him days of suffering and infirmity; and not to him alone, but to his progeny. Why has the simplicity of our physical bodies been so long misunderstood but by deviating from Nature? And the present medical theory and system, instead of being grounded on reason and common sense, is the offspring of all the absurd superstitious notions of the darkest ages, and which by the aid of che- mistry they even surpass, by administering their poisonous preparations and diversities of treatment. To be well in the good graces of the world, and flatter their feelings and weak- ness, the doctors attempt to cure without our feeling it, as if disease was merely a spirit. That is impossible ; and accordingly their treatments only end in infirmities, pains, and death. What is the actual mode of treating fevers when they present themselves with any
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