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Excerpt from Experimental Investigation of the Action of Medicines
Mry, and, by gradually correcting every error, his aim will at last he sure. Should he then be called on to stand sentry on some dark night. And shoot at some suspicions object without hitting it, he would know that his failure was due to his not having seen the object distinctly, and having consequently aimed in a wrong direction. And just as the ri?eman, before he stands sentryin the dark, must learntoshoot by daylight, when he can note the effect of each alteration in the position of his ri?e on the come of the bullet, so ought we to investigate the action of our remedies in circumstances and under conditions which we know and can vary at will, marking the effect of each variation upon their action till we thoroughly and exactly understand what it is, before we proceed to give them in disease, when not only the conditions under which they Operate are at present in a great measure unknown, but the effect! They produce cannot be definitely ascertained from ih sufficient knowledge ofwhst the result would have been had they been withheld. Of late years, it is true, vigorous e?'orts have been made to determine what course diseases run when not interfered with by medi cines; and, although it is often difficult to say what the sequence of symptoms will be in any particular case, depending as it does not only onthegenemlconme ofthe disease, butonindividual peculiarities of the patient and an the varying circumstances in which he is placed, we may nevertheless medal!) with tolerable accuracy whether or not our treatment is beneficialinageneralway, even when we cannot (leter mine its effects in detail.
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