A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leaft before we ufe the lancet, let us weigh well the fymptom that feems to indicate it. As the Author's intention in this little tract is rather to appear ufeful than elegant, he has therefore been at little pains with re- gard to diction or ornament. To write plain, fo as to be rightly underftood, is all he aims at. The humane reader will, he is perfuaded, eafily forgive errors of that nature, in a fketch wrote in hafle, and in- tended for immediate ufe: and as he has confulted no author in drawing it up, nor opened a fingle book on the fubjedt, his de- fcription' is to be confidered as folely made from his own obfervations, fince the prefent commencement of the difeafe: for this rea- fon he hopes he is not cenfurable, if all its variety of fymptoms be not enumerated. The young practitioner, who has not had an opportunity of feeing the difeafe before, as