Medical reports of cases and experiments : with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles / By Samuel Argent Bardsley. M.D. M.R.M.S. Edinburgh; and M.S. London: physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, Lunatic Hospital, and Asylum; and Vice-President of the Literary, and Philosophical Society, at Manchester.

  • Bardsley, Samuel Argent, 1764-1851.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Medical reports of cases and experiments : with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles / By Samuel Argent Bardsley. M.D. M.R.M.S. Edinburgh; and M.S. London: physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, Lunatic Hospital, and Asylum; and Vice-President of the Literary, and Philosophical Society, at Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    claim to authenticity and correctness. How far indeed the Author’s general inferences from the pre- mises, and his particular observations on many of the facts, may be deemed fair and allowable, must be left for others to determine. He has not, however, attempted to imitate the conduct of some medical writers, who, professing to treat on subjects purely practical, strenuously endeavour to establish a favorite hypotliesis, to which their facts and reasonings are rendered entirely sub- servient. Indeed, to this idol of their fancy, they are often not only implicitly attached, but are so bigoted, as to expect an equal degree of devotion on the part of their readers. - ‘The Author is wedded to no particular theory, nor the follower of any medical sect. Formerly a pupil in the schools of several celebrated teachers, he may have been, like many others, in the season of youthful ardour and inexperience, too much dazzled with the novelty and splendor of system, to apply to himself, with justice, the sage maxim of ‘© Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.” But the period of such blind attachment has been long over, He is nowarrived at that sober age, and > has