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Excerpt from Observations on Antimony: Read Before the Medical Society of London, and Published at Their Request
Emedies have often acquired R reputation without fu?icient evidence of their innocence and efficacy. Some have been introduced by an injudicious application of the theory of the fchools, others by rafh and preci pitate conclufions drawn from partial. Experiment, and many by a refined fpe cicsmankind, veiled under the fpecious pre tence of firict morality, extenfive bene volence, and difinterefied love of fcience. 'it is 'not furprifing that a fieady ex ertion of thefe arts fhould p1evaii, when we confider th'at phyficians, whofe duty it is intelligently to examine thefe boa'f'ted remedies, and if frivélous or dangerous, to expofe and refift the spa trons of them, have too often contri but'e'd - to ie'ftablilh' the deceit. Some are borne along by the torrent of vulgar prejudice; while others Ita'nd aloof beholding, with indignant pride, the triumph of impof'rure and many judging a compliance with popular prejudices' thfeir {melt and fafef't couple.
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