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Excerpt from An Inaugural Discourse on Medical Eclecticism
In the first place, let us ascertain the course of conduct which has been observed by critical eclectism towards systematic medicine, under the many chameleon changes which it has, at different times, experienced. Systematic medicine has always contended for the truth of some assumed principle. The object of critical eclectism has always been to test the truth of this principle by close and impartial observation. It, therefore, conducted the abstractions of systematic medicine into the clinical Ward, and there con fronted them by disease, as it really exists, and not as ?oats in the excited imagination of the enthusiast. It is there that the eclectic physician has been enabled to determine.
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