General observations on the theory and practice of medicine; being an attempt to apply the spirit of Lord Bacon's philosophy, to subjects of medical reasoning / [Joseph William Gullifer].

  • Gullifer, Joseph William, -1827.
Date:
1817
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Credit: General observations on the theory and practice of medicine; being an attempt to apply the spirit of Lord Bacon's philosophy, to subjects of medical reasoning / [Joseph William Gullifer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every community where the press has enjoyed an unrestrained freedom. When I survey the album of great names, and recollect what the fathers of medical science have done, I feel mixed sensations of admiration and regret; of admiration at the extent of their labours, of regret at the misapplication of their talents. The manner in which men were formerly initiated into the secrets of courts, and that false species of wisdom by which the world were formerly governed, have been laid open; the knowledge of the links of that general chain of international policy which binds and draws distant communities towards each other, and which was once confined to the closets of the chosen few, is now made matter of simple understanding; even legislation itself is likely to acquire such a simplicity, a com- prehensiveness, and a number of first princi- ples, in consequence of the introduction of a new science, comprehended under the general term of political economy, as promises the most beneficial results. The further we ad- vance in the career of civilization, the more those simple truths, which add an inexpres-