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Excerpt from An Essay on Some of the Principles of Medical Delusion
The sources of medical delusions are similar, however these may differ in form. To write the history of all medical delusions, would be a task too great for one man, and even if it were done, one might say, with the evangelist, I suppose the world could not contain the books that would be written. It will therefore be more to the purpose to trace out the sources of medical delusions, giving the history of such as best illustrate the mode in which they arise. This will be my object, nor will it grieve me to expose quackery, whether under the garb of ignorance, or covering its shame with the fair parchments of medical colleges.
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