On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutic agent / by Baron D.J. Larrey ; translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison.

  • Larrey, D. J. (Dominique Jean), baron, 1766-1842.
Date:
1822
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    qualities to which it is not entitled:* it is tlii» confusion respecting cause and effect, which (as was before observed) has tended, more than any other circumstance, to the retardation of thera- peutics; for it cannot be doubted, tliat where the means adopted are inert, the practitioner, from a supposed opinion of their virtues, is apt to lull himself into a too fatal confidence; and, imder a false security, to lose an opportunity for using more active remedies, which it is not in his power subsequently to regain. The catalogue of the Materia Medica has been undergoing a dimi- nution, in its number of articles, for several years, and there are at present many, which, doubtless, might be very properly expunged. To physio- logical and pathological knowledge it is, that we must look for the most important improvements * Jacobus Rohault, has, in his Traelat: Physic: laid down three degrees of experience, which, if strictly attended to, would prevent all that confusion respecting cause and effect, which is daily observable in medicine. Primus he observes, est simplicissimus sensuum usus: secundus, observationes fortuitaa siib experiraentis artificialibus occnrrentest tertius, ilia observatio quam ratiocinatio per varias illattones confimiat.