Sequel to Outlines of medical proof / [Thomas Mayo].

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871
Date:
1849
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Credit: Sequel to Outlines of medical proof / [Thomas Mayo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO OUTLINES OE MEDICAL PROOF. CHAPTER I. Subject best continued in detached essays.—Reviewer.—Single facts considered in their relation to proof—as embodying general princi¬ ples—as enabling us to act in the absence of general principles—« their relation to abstraction considered. The task of pursuing this important subject, which I wished to place in the hands of Mr. Green, as his right by pre-occupation of the ground, has been returned by him to me. Having made a commencement of that part of the subject,* which may be considered a sequel to Mr. Green’s views in his “ Mental Dynamics,” I am unwilling that it should be altogether dropped. It is no doubt possible that there may be intellects so highly gifted, as to thread the mazes of medical proof without any rules or assistance. Nay, it is possible, that in * Outlines of Medical Proof, by Thomas Mayo, M.D. P.R.S, B