Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson.

  • Thomas Wakley
Date:
1851
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Credit: Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    practical science, and to tlie eagerness shown by society to take advantage of any newly-announced medical or surgical remedy. Unfortunately, that unsuspecting desire to seize, with blind faith and hope, on any new proposal for curing disease, is, in this country, the fertile source and support of all those partial, detached, and empirical sys- tems of practice, which are, and ever must be, denounced and repudiated by every well-educated practitioner. The medical officers connected with the public institutions of this vast metropolis coimnand the most ample opportunities of observing the strong tendencies of the public feeling with respect to the adoption of new remedies. Scarcely is a new fact of any unportance connected with the cure of disease published in the periodical journals, when the “ out-patients” at the public hospitals make the proposed remedy the subject of common conversation amongst them. Frequently, the applicants for relief even ask to be treated on the “ new plan,” and sometimes they request to be given some of the “ new medicine.” One of the most striking instances of the lively
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