Observations on the angina pectoris, gout, and cow pox / by Gustavus Hume.

  • Hume, Gustavus, 1732-1812.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the angina pectoris, gout, and cow pox / by Gustavus Hume. 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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    xlv in constitutional diseases, than by forcibly at- tempting a removal, or suppression, of symp- toms, frequently mistaken for primary causes, by too early and powerful an exertion of art; and the medical cases, in which we are most pressed instantly to act, are, when either blood-letting, purging, clearing the stomach, restoring suddenly suppressed perspiration, any mode of depletion, and frequently elevation of depressed powers, by the most active mea- sures, are obviously required. Such observa- tions, though they may appear obsolete, yet are now certainly not unnecessary ; as some learned men, especially at or near to much resorted water drinking places, who consider themselves adepts in chymistry, consequently the more experimental, are principally fol- lowed from being reputed bold, eccentric pre- scribers; which character is, at best, as much inferior, to that of a cautious yet efficient physician, as a modern partizan is to an ap- proved experienced general, whose reputation, though