A dissertation upon the cholera infantum : to which are added, rules and regulations, as preventive means of the autumnal diseases of children : which gained the Boylstonian prize, for the year 1803 / by James Mann.

  • Mann, James, 1759-1832.
Date:
1804
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    PREFACE. XxMONG the many humane aflbciations for the improve- ment of the arts, and the promotion of fcience, it is with plea- fure we behold, that of medicine is not deftitute of gentlemen, who, by their talents and patronage, are able and willing to af- ford it a generous fupport. It is, in fome meafure, owing to the very refpe&able members, who were inftrumental of eftablifliing, at firft, the Massachu- setts Medical Society, that we obferve the majefty of medical philofophy triumphing over illiberal empiricifm, and impofing quackery finking into deferved difreputation. Although nojlrums, under fpecious appellations, and unmerited encomiums, are ftill daily publifhed, and fold to the mifinformed invalid, to benefit no one except the avaricious patentee, or in- terefted venders themfelves ; yet it is with pride, we can a/Tert, that in no portion of the world are they lefs fought after, than in the New-England States. The time is rapidly approaching, we contemplate, when the good fenfe of our well-informed countrymen will deride the name of a medicine unwarranted by eftablifhed practice, and whofe beneficial effe&s are unknown, except upon the venders' bills ; while they will fpurn from them, the contemptible au* thors of them, who, for the fake of fordid lucre, do not blufh to {port with the healths and lives of their fellow-citizens. The philofopher in medicine, as well as the other branches of fcience, which immediately have refpecl to health, conceals nothing from the public eye, which he fuppofes may be of general ufefulnefs. It is only a few years, fince the fcience of medicine has be- come a branch of academic education in New-England. It is owing principally to the benevolent exertions of a few, with many facrifices of others, that Harvard University is, at this time*