Observations on the principles of the old system of physic, exhibiting a compend of the new doctrine : the whole containing a new account of the state of medicine from the present times, backward, to the restoration of the Grecian learning in the western parts of Europe / by a gentleman conversant in the subject [i.e. John Brown].

  • Brown, John, 1735-1788.
Date:
Anno 1787
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the principles of the old system of physic, exhibiting a compend of the new doctrine : the whole containing a new account of the state of medicine from the present times, backward, to the restoration of the Grecian learning in the western parts of Europe / by a gentleman conversant in the subject [i.e. John Brown]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

    31/400
    valent in every department of knowledge ; as is fufficiently proved by the abufe of Epicurus’s Syftem of Morals, in the ex- planations and diforderly lives and princi- ples of his followers ; by the mifreprefen- tation of the doctrines of Socrates, in the myfterious enthufiafm of everT the cele- brated Plato ; by the fyflems of falfe phy- siology and pathology, that derived their unnatural birth from the very refpebtable difcovery of the circulation of the blood ; by the extenfon of the antiphlogiftic re- gimen to all difeafes, in confequence of the difcovery of its utility in a very few, by Dr. Sydenham; and by the wild and miftaken applications, that have been made in every part of the ftudy of nature, but efpecially in medicine, of the practice of reafoning by induction, fubftituted by Lord Veru- lam in place of that by fylogifm, according to the old logic of Arillotle : All thefe, as well as many other inftances that might be adduced, but too clearly prove the perni- cious effects that abflracft reafoning had in- troduced into every part of knowledge.