General observations on the philosophy of medicine; with some anticipations of its future state, arising out of a comparison of its progress with that of the sciences in general.

  • Gullifer, Joseph William.
Date:
1809
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Credit: General observations on the philosophy of medicine; with some anticipations of its future state, arising out of a comparison of its progress with that of the sciences in general. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    scepticism has been greater: of the two evils it is much better that the former should usurp the place of the latter, than that the plantations of science should be torn up by the roots. As, however, antagonist proper- ties, by a reciprocal affinity, sometimes neu- tralize each other, it only remains for us to hope, that these will gradually, though not insensibly, lose their effect, so as to end in harmony and order. In no instance can that profound remark of Mr Hume, “ that all ex- tremes have a tendency to approximate and draw towards each other/' be applied with stricter propriety than to the career which these two opposite powers, universal scepti- cism and implicit credulity, have been known to run. Section GEig&tjh Human discoveries in the next century, though they may not, for any thing we know, go on to improve in so rapid a state of progression as they have in the last, are