Volume 1

A treatise on febrile diseases. Including intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers, inflammations, hemorrhages, and the profluvia ... / by A. Philip Wilson.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847
Date:
1799-1804
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Credit: A treatise on febrile diseases. Including intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers, inflammations, hemorrhages, and the profluvia ... / by A. Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For such ‘a work, however, he looks in vain. | The systematic medical writers of this country, intending their publications to serve as text-books to lectures,) or mere in- troductions to the study of medicine, have given little more than the outline. This cannot be said ‘indeed of those of other. countries. But their arrangements of the symptoms of diseases, as well as their modes of practice, are in general so exceptionable, compared with those which have for some time been taught in Britain, ‘that their works can only be recommended to those who have already studied medicine, and are capable of guarding against their errors, while they acquire a knowledge of the many useful facts they contain.* | The * Foreign medical writers, although certainly much inferior in general to those of this country in their ar- rangement both of the symptoms and treatment of diseases, and in their modes of practice; yet greatly excel us (particularly the German writers) in a point of the greatest importance, in the number of facts which . their writings contain. This proceeds from two. causes, their field of observation being more extensive, owing ta