Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    €'But to remove the objection, let me say at once that M. Louis has not brought forward a new system of medicine; he has only proposed and pursued a new method in prosecuting the study of medicine. This is nothing else than the method of induction, the method of Bacon, so much vaunted and yet so little regarded. But, if so, where is the novelty? If any one, after patiently studying and practising the me- thod proposed by M. Louis, denies the novelty of it, I will not dispute with him a moment. Perhaps he will then agree with me that it is a novelty to pursue the method of Bacon thor- oughly and truly in the study of medicine ; though it is not new to talk of it and to laud it. A little history of one part of M. Louis's life will throw some light on this subject. This gentleman went abroad, and I believe had some appointment in Russia, after he had gone through the usual course of professional education. Re- turning to France at the age of thirty-two, he was about to engage in private practice. He wras then led to examine anew the state of the science of medicine, and was dissatisfied with it. He now decided to abandon the thoughts of prac- JB