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First lines of the practice of physic / by William Cullen, M.D. late professor of the practice of physic in the University of Edinburgh, &c. &c. ; in four volumes ; with practical and explanatory notes by John Rotheram, M.D.

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
Date:
1791
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    our practice. Upon this footing, I might have at once rejected the Stahlian principle : but it is even dangerous to bring any fuch principle into view ; for, after all Dr Stahl had faid in the paffage juft now referred to, 1 find, that, in the whole of their practice, both he and his follow- ers have been very much governed by their ge* neral principle. Trufting much to the conftant attention and wifdom of nature, they have pro- pofed the Art of curing by expectation; have therefore, for the molt part, propofed only very inert and frivolous remedies; have zealoufly op- pofed the ufe of fome of the mod efficacious, fuch as opium and the Peruvian bark ; and are extremely referved in the ufe of general reme- dies, fuch as bleeding, vomiting, &c. Although thefe remarks, upon a fyftem which may now be confidered as exploded or neglected, may feem fuperfluous; I have been willing to give thefe ftriclures on the Stahlian fyftem, that I might carry my remarks a little farther, and take this opportunity of obferving, that, in whatever manner we may explain what have been called the operations of nature, it appears to rae, that the general dottrine of Nature