The history of the plague of Athens : translated from Thucydides : with remarks explanatory of its pathology / by Charles Collier.

Date:
1857
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Credit: The history of the plague of Athens : translated from Thucydides : with remarks explanatory of its pathology / by Charles Collier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    are few or none, it may be affirmed, even in our own time, apart from the medical profes- sion, who can have clearer notions than he could have had of the nature of any disease, or who are better prepared for so grouping symptoms as to show, through them, the in- ward seat and cause—for framing, that is, a lucid and accurate clinical statement. Society at large is, no doubt, aware that the brain is the seat and source of sensation, as also that the blood, by the heart's impulse, goes the round of the body several times in a minute; and if these general notions, however gathered or verified, be knowledge, then the unlettered may be said to know more than did even Hippocrates or Aristotle ; and yet it might be shown that, even amid darkness, those enlightened men had many of those glimpses which, like intuitive perceptions, come to the earnest and truthful students of nature, and 1