Excerpt from Practical Treatise on Consumptions

Mankind in general, for some considerable time past, have regarded the medicinal art as grounded upon very uncertain, precarious, and even superstitious principles, variable at pleasure, not supported with that demonstrative evidence that attends most other professions, and even, in a great measure, chimerical.

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