Elements of pathology and therapeutics : being the outlines of a work, intended to ascertain the nature, causes, and most efficacious modes of prevention and cure, of the greater number of the diseases incidental to the human frame / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Elements of pathology and therapeutics : being the outlines of a work, intended to ascertain the nature, causes, and most efficacious modes of prevention and cure, of the greater number of the diseases incidental to the human frame / by Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    day sees announced as novelties, opinions, which for thirty years have formed the basis of his practice. If, however, this anticipation may have occasioned him some loss of credit, it has been fully compensated by the advantage, which the delay has afforded, of scrutinizing specious hypotheses, and correcting hasty misconceptions. Sufficient time has now been allowed for all the purposes of observation, which the author can reasonably expect to accomplish during what may remain to him of physical and mental capacity; and he thinks that he cannot employ his leisure better, than in giving an epitome of his pathological and practical principles; reserving the recital of the very numerous cases and dissections, which are the proofs of those principles, for a much larger work, which he has long meditated, and which he still hopes that he may one day be able to accomplish.