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Excerpt from Pathological Observations, Vol. 2: On Continued Fever, Ague, Tic Doloreux, Measles, Small-Pox, and Dropsy; Illustrated by Cases Noted in the Year 1828, From Hospital and Private Practice; With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Institute of Medicine; And an Appendix, on the Origin, Preventi
Offer myself merely as an humble pioneer, venturing with caution, dictated by experience, to break through the entangle ments which Obscure or obstruct a some-time neglected path to valuable improvement.
When the great importance of pathology is considered, and that that importance grows greater every day, it must at first appear strange, that men gifted with equal abilities, and of un questionable integrity, should for so long a time have drawn such very different conclusions from the same or similar premises and perhaps there is no more natural explanation for this, than the paramount importance Of the question respecting which it is. When civilization is great, and population dense, senden tary employments, with their train of bad morals induced by the one, and the far extending influence of the contagion attendant on the other, render a true system Of pathology an Object Of such intense interest, that we may well believe it generally de prives those who are in search of it, Of much Of that calmness which is essentially necessary to SO critical an investigation. But, be this as it may, one thing at least we must be certain of, that the two contradictory systems cannot both be true, and that neither of them is sufficient for the Physician's guide, or the purposes Of society. This conviction, as well as that each contains much that is valuable is my apology for persevering in the course I have adopted, in which I am further supported by the following letter, which must be acceptable to the reader, whether he considers the depth of information it contains, or the high authority from whence it comes.
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