Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered to the Medical Society of Orange County, New-York, at Their Anniversary Meeting, July 7, 1812
In this way the art of medicine continued among the Greeks for many ages. As its first professors knew nothing of the animal economy, and as little of the theory of diseases, it is plain, that whatever they did, must have been in consequence of mere random trials or empiricism, in the most strict and proper sense of the word: indeed, it is evidently impossible that this or any art could originate from any other source than trials of this kind. Accord(8)
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