London medical practice : its sins and shortcomings / by a physician.

  • Dickson, Samuel, 1802-1869.
Date:
1860
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Credit: London medical practice : its sins and shortcomings / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    WOEKS ON CHRONO-THERMAL MEDICINE. FALLACIES OF THE FACULTY. PEOPLE'S EDITION. Price 2s. 6d. THE CHRONO-THERMALIST; OR, PEOPLE'S MEDICAL ENQUIRER. 2 Vols. 8vo. Price 15s. PHYSIC AND ITS PHASES: A DIDACTIC POEM, IN SIX BOOKS. 2d Edition. Price 2s. 6d. Since the time of Pope's ' Dunciad ' we have seen nothing that approaches this admirable poem, either iu severity of truth or satire. The work is one every way remarkable, for it is not only a just and outspoken condemnation of the chicane and mala praxis of the medical art; an exposition of the ignorance and folly of the pro- fession as too generally illustrated in practice; but more, it is an extremely clever and most judicious theory and conspectus of medicine in verse. A work that, for its biting—but not vindictive—truths and thorough exposure of the humbugs of, and the tricks and subterfuges adopted in, the medical profession, must strike with dismay those imbeciles who, pinning their faith to the schools, have neither nerve nor intel- lect to unfetter their thoughts or think for themselves, but are content to drag after them the chaining dogmas of an exploded system, beyond which they have neither the capacity to think or act. No physician, no practitioner, is worth one straw tiU he has wiped from his mind the theories of his education, and is enabled to draw self-confidence from the reasonings of his own experience. The new lights that have lately burst on the art and science of medicine are as dead letters to too many of the profession, who, with inexplicable fatuity, adhere to the old and murderous systems rather than acknowledge that for years they have been groping in positive ignorance. This is the second edition of a work of unquestioned ability, and which is calculated to stir tlie inmost conscience of every medical man who has the proud distinction of owning such a property ; and, as such, we recommend it both to the profession and the public generally, with the fullest conviction of its sterling truth and practical excellence.—JEra. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATI0NJ2RS' HALL COURT. And all Boohellers.