Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    I do not officioufly or willingly point out what I conceive to have been the grounds of miftake in me- dicine. I venerate the learning and ingenuity of our predeceflbrs, which contributed to procure for the medical art, a name and a confequence in the efti- mation of mankind. If, however, they have failed in fome things, we ought to take a leflbn from this failure, and by fhunning the fpecious fallacy of hafty generalization, and by having recourfe to a diligent, accurate, and minute enquiry after fadls, which enquiry, the ftate of medicine demands of us, endea- your to promote its beft and truell interefts. I MAKE thefe obfervations as an apology, if one be neceffary, for my having occafionally, in the fol- lowing obfervations, difregarded prevalent and fa- fhionable doOirines of the fchools ; and for my hav- ing departed from the ufual routine of praflice in refpeft of the adminiftration of purgative medicines. A habit which I early acquired of attending to the A 3 means