A practical dissertation on the medicinal effects of the Bath waters / by William Falconer.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A practical dissertation on the medicinal effects of the Bath waters / by William Falconer. 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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    The mariifeft improbability of any event’s taking place, is often the caufe why it finds credit, if fupported with vehement affertion and audacious impetuofity. The weak and timid are overborne and confounded by the violence of afleveration, arid thofe who pre- tend to think for themfelves, are often deluded by the argument (common enough indeed, but daily refuted by experience) that no man would rifque his chara61;er on fuch bold af- fertions, unlefs they were founded in truth. Medical obfervation indeed furniilies in- ftances fufficient of the failure of empirical promifesj but fuch frauds (for they merit no- better name) are feldom refented with the indignation that might be expe6led in a mat- ter of fuch confequence. The caufe of this, I take to be, that few are willing to expofe themfelyes to the ^ridicule which is apt to be call on fuch as are overreached by trufting to