Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson.

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1806
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Credit: Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I NOTE [ K], page 278. AS affording an example of the fuccelsfiil application of- the Analytical Method to the lludy of Medicine, I beg leave to itfer the reader to Dr. Dar^^in’s account of the l^ifeafes of Affociation, and particularly to his I'hcory of- Fever. It is not as explaining the phenomena of the febrile flate upon any particular hypothecs, that this theory ought to be conlidered ; but as prefenting a clear and fyftematic ex- polition of the principal fymptoms, in which tlieir develope-* ment is traced, and their mutual conneclion determined. Viewed in this liglit, it bids fa- to become, one day, the foundation of a fyltem, hich,” as the author has with juft confidence expreffed himfelf, “ may not moulder, like the Itiu&nres already cre6led, into the fund of N^hich they were compofed; but which may ftand unimpaired, like the Newtonian Philofophy, a rock amid the wafte of ages!”—At the fame time it muft be acknowledged, that his explications are far from complete; that they contain fome inponfiftencies, and may admit of many important corrections and itnproveinents. But abftradting from thefe confiderations, they will be found, I believe, to exhibit the molt beautiful fpeciinen of induBion which the fcience of medicine can boaft, and ought certainly to be fufficient to refcue the fame of the author from that oblivion which feems to threaten his other theoretical w'ritings. THE END. raiKTED BY lYE AND ST. JOUK’S SQUABS, GLt $