Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton.

  • Clifton, Francis, -1736.
Date:
1731
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Credit: Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m us, that Jo much knowledge is not necejfa~ ry, in order to be eminent: and why Jhouldwe give our felves more trouble than is necejfa- ry ? This is the way of thinking among fome people : But, with fubmiffion, a man Ihould ne¬ ver undertake the praftice of Phyfick, without xefolving to do it in the belt manner he can ; fashionable or not fafhionable. He who is a- bove thefe confiderations, ought to give it up. For my own part, I look upon my fielf oblig'd, fince I have taken upon me the Character of a Phyfician, to do every thing I can think of for the fervice of Mankind in that way; and I hope I Shall always have Vertue and Refold- tion enough to Speak my mind freely, and to aft according to my judgment, upon every oc- cafion, in the, way of my profeffion, when I am call'd upon for that purpofe. There's a great difference between the praftice of Phyfick, and the praftice of other Arts. A man may be ignorant or negligent in the noble Art of fainting, for inftance, and yerpaint on, without injuring any body but himfelf. But the cale is quite other wife in Phyfick. If a Man undertakes the cure of difeafes, without knowing their nature, their appearances, and their confequences, together with the beft re¬ medies in ule; or if he knows thefe things, and yet neglefts to oblerve the cafe as he ought, 'tis a very great chance, if he does not injure eyefy body but Time