Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine ... Together with observations--on the medicinal effects of tobacco / [Thomas Fowler].

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801
Date:
1788
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Credit: Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine ... Together with observations--on the medicinal effects of tobacco / [Thomas Fowler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prerace to the Second Enition. A MEDICINAL Hiftory of Remedies (ef. pecially of the more ative Kind) in- cluding an accurate Difcrimination between their operative and curative Effects, is certain- | ly a grand Defideratum in Phyfic ; but not eafily to be accomplifhed. Memory mutt be aflifted by Art, and Numbers muft unite their Efforts for a cantiderable Leven of Time; a Series of Cafes mult be treated, with a con- ftant View to the Taeeleention of the Opera- tions and Virtues of Medicines, with Dili- i gence, Perfeverance, and Zeal, uninfluenced | by Theory, Cuftom, or Authority ; and per- tinent Obfervations, relative to their feveral ofetative and curative Effects, ought to be ar- | ranged under general Heads, and carefully a2 collated,