British And Foreign Medico Chirurgical Review

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334611629
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, 1850 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, 1850 We cannot take a better model than this, for the building up of our Philosophy of Medicine. Experience, indeed, has long since led all really sagacious thinkers to the conclusion, that no constructed systems can possess any real value; and there has been of late years very little dispo aition to bring forward any, the principle of growth having been generally recognised as that by which alone they can acquire any permanent hold over public opinion. But there are many subordinate doctrines, in regard to which the same caution is required. There is at present more tendency to build up partial schemes than general systems; and with regard to most of these we believe it will be found that the first attempts are rarely successful, and that they need to be modified by subsequent consideration before they can be rendered true expressions ofthe facts they are intended to embrace, or can harmoniously assimilate with the other portions of the fabric to whose growth they should contribute. And thus it has happened that the true value of a discovery has seldom been rightly estimated at the time, either by the discoverer himself, or by those who have accepted it. The more triking and novel aspect of it of course attract attention most strongly in the first instance; but it not unfre quently turns out that these are the very points in which it is most open to attack; so that it would seem in danger of entire demolition, if it were not for some latent truth which subsequently developes itself in a manner little anticipated by the original discoverer, giving to the whole subject a new aspect, and to the discovery itself of afar higher, and more permanent value. Hence it may happen that, without any sudden or striking change, the progress of opinion may be great; so that it is desirable from time to time to take a fresh survey of our position, and to ascertain if our former landmarks still hold their accustomed places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.