Volume 1

Medical histories and reflections / by John Ferriar, M. D. physician to the Manchester Infirmary, and Lunatic Hospital.

  • Ferriar, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1792-1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical histories and reflections / by John Ferriar, M. D. physician to the Manchester Infirmary, and Lunatic Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    via PREFACE. fions, if he trufl: his memory alone, or negled long to adjuft his Adverfaria. The inftances of good or ill fuccefs are likewife often feparated by intervals of time, and other purfuits, which deaden or obliterate the force of / comparifon. By fupporting a journal of the treatment and events of certain difeafes, on the contrary, a phyfician fupplies himfelf with data, on which he can reafon with confidence, and ad with fatisfadion, in forming a plan of cure for every new patient. One of the chief obftacles to accuracy in relating obfervations, has been the unhappy pronenefs of i