Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson.

  • Wakley, Thomas, 1795-1862.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson. 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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    confidence in the practice of medicine, not only in the public mind, but amongst physicians and surgeons themselves. Probably one of the causes which has tended in a great degree to establish and sustain the confidence of the community in the practice of medicine, has been the judicious caution which practitioners of eminence have exercised before they have resorted to new means of cure; and secondly, the candour and integrity which they have so often displayed in publishing the results of their experiments and experience. It is honourably felt that much deliberation and cau- tion is due alike to a noble science, to the just claims of society, and to the exalted character of a dignified profession. If every example of the successful treatment of disease, by a new remedy, were to be pub- lished, the minds of practitioners, if not strongly fortified by previous study, and habits of thought- ful investigation, would become in danger of being involved in confusion by the dazzling announcements of numberless triumphant expe- rimentalists. It is, therefore, forcibly felt by B 2