This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... the last, so intimately connected with the science of medicine, two gentlemen not of our profession have the distinction of being the first to collect facts bearing on our climate. Near the close of the last century, Governor Saegent made observations, but they were never systematized and published; and it was not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... the last, so intimately connected with the science of medicine, two gentlemen not of our profession have the distinction of being the first to collect facts bearing on our climate. Near the close of the last century, Governor Saegent made observations, but they were never systematized and published; and it was not till 1806 that the thermometer was observed, and its indications regularly recorded. This was then commenced by Col. Jaeed Mansfield, Surveyor General of the North-western Territory, and afterwards a distinguished Professor at West Point. The biographical notices of our early physicians is now concluded, and their names, I trust, will forever remain in the archives of our Association, as the first fruits of its organization--the first chapter of our medical history. In early times Cincinnati was not without her empirics, whose names need not be recorded; but the empiricism of that period, here and elsewhere in the United States, was so different from that of the present time, that I must give to both, a passing notice. The quacks of that day were, so to speak, ignorant physicians--mere pretenders--but what they pretended was, to be successful imitators of men of science. They relied upon various expedients to commend themselves to the credulous; but their magazines of trickery did not include unblushing denunciations of the very medicines, which secretly they employed. Wealth and fashion had not yet volunteered to indorse the drafts of heartless and cunning impudence; nor learning stooped from her pathway in the firmament of human dignity to pander, like a fallen angel, for vulgar absurdity or mystical nonsense. Nor had legislatures then chartered schools, which revile each other, --yet to fulfill their great mission, unite in teaching ignorant yo..
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