Volume 5

Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory.

  • Gregory, George, 1790-1853.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appear to direct the reasonings, and to give a tone to the language of medical writers at the present period. The idea of such a work was originally suggested, by the necessity which he found of editing a short syllabus to the course of lectures, which he is delivering in the Metropolis, on the © Theory and Practice of Physic. It appeared to him in the prosecution of this object, that a slight alteration of his plan might enable him to lay be- fore the junior branches of the profession an ele- mentary work, which might possibly prove more extensively useful. The general design of the volume coincides very nearly with that of Dr. Cullen’s First Lines, a work of which it is searcely possible to speak in terms of adequate praise ; which for perspicuity of description, acuteness of reasoning, and elegance of language, will probably long continue unrivalled, and which, for its various merits, is justly classed among the standard classical works in medicine. It cannot be concealed however, that many of the theoretical speculations in which Dr. forgotten; that much which he thought important, is now neglected, and much that he neglected hae” since risen into consequence. This must ever be the * Cullen indulged are in a great measure