Symptomatology / by John Berkenhout, M.D.

  • Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Symptomatology / by John Berkenhout, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and 1 dare fay, Sir, you have feen enough of difeafes to convince you of that truth. But I will go a ftep farther ; I aver, that the firft flage is the only important period of acute difeafes; and that a careful nurfe will condudi a patient with fafety through mofi (I had almoft faid all) ideopa- thic fevers, known in this climate, if rationally dire&ed in the beginning. Hence it follows, that the pre- eminence of a Phyrician confifts folely in the fuperiority of his rank in fo- ciety; in his having had an academi- cal education, and in being, generally, a man of letters and of fcience. In the line of Phylic he is of mighty little confequence: fo little, that his at- tendance might commonly be fpared, if