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Show 154 Fluctuations of opinions and practice in finer, patient fidelity in observing, ready in imitating, the abuse of this instrument by inferior practitioners, frequently recommend it three or four portion of the globe. Among professors q/ {lie practice cf medicine, who are generally the most times themsel *es; and but. a small proportion give warning against the practice, except in With wholesale dealers in speculation, and whom the subject of fever must occupy so vast rarer cases, wned tent, it those, who have become most reno in our schools, "Show m; A- A-- More cautions pbysh and dexterous in modifying the analogies and methods of their masters,--have been scattered with a pretty equal hand over the scientific a space, every equitable man may he well con- l tenth day or later still. 165 shall he allowed by any but compretheir own disciples to Vie in learning, of the hension, and originality with the masters ‘ Dutch, French, or German shools. the From the accounts of epidemic t'evers ol' r last century, observers on the continent appea . to have practised dissections more constantly y tor Indeed we have Dr. Clutterhuek‘s authorit doubting whether half a dozen fever-patients inahave been opened in all London, for exam e tion into the efi‘ects of the disorder, in the cours ot'halfa dozen years (p ). eians, who are perpetually exclaiming against In our own country, observation was more confined to external appearances; and these scarcely ever afford so strong a temptation to blood-letting; and they often prohibit it from the first. Our standard writers held out the terrors ot'putridity. The tract of Dr. Forthergill on the putrid sore throat had a vast influence in determining the public mind in favour of the stimulating treatment; and the doctors of the Scotch school, whether professsors or private teachers, whether friendly or hostile to one another, whether they founded spasm upon debility, or freed their doctrine from spasm as a vile eneumhran e, co-operated most strenuously Whatever may in compleating the work, which had so far been ~ have been the motives by which free blood letting was introduced; it was strongly con- r firmed to foreign practitioners by ocula the universal watchword of medicine, and an- proofol' attendant inflammation and of the consequences of inflammation. 1 could fill pang nihilated tor a time great part ot'the benefits 0t" cxoericnce. d with extracts, from which the lancet woul ., , ., _. a, ' p . '1 ~ appear to have been used sexeial times a dc}, o the a dozen times perhaps or more 1n all, and t tenth prepared ‘t'or their hands. Putting (/ebi/i/g in the place of putrescenee, they rendered it almost In this progress how wonderfully did we pride ourselves! How did these discoveries sooth ou‘ national jealousy with the idea of mm M |