An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes; and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body ... / By John Baron.

  • Baron, John, 1786-1851.
Date:
1819
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Credit: An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes; and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body ... / By John Baron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the complaint itself, independent of any opinion that I may have adopted on the subject. It has been my wish, likewise, so to connect one case with another, that their coincidences and analogies may be discovered, and the inferences which they may afford rendered plain to all who peruse them. This minuteness is not required in recording the results of practice in common and well known maladies ; but it is necessary, on every occasion where accident or experiment has led the observer out of the ordinary path, and presented to him any thing remarkable either in the progress of disease or in the aetion of remedies. Our art has suffered from the vague and conjec- tural statements of the older writers, as well as from the laconic and presumptuous style which modern doctrines have encouraged. In both in- stanees, the “ ancient and sober diligenee” of the Father of Physie has been forgotten ; and instead of the “historia graphica et naturalis,” we find hypothetical and redundant descriptions, or brief generalities, very unfit to lead to a proper diagnosis or to successful practice. It is therefore no mat- ter of wonder that our reasonings exhibit so many