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Excerpt from Fibrositis (Gouty, Infective, Traumatic): So-Called Chronic Rheumatism, Including Villous Synovitis of Knee and Hip, and Sacro-Iliac Relaxation
Obsessed by this conception of its causation, they failed to approach the study of the disease in that spirit of inquiring scepticism which impels the mind to subject to critical analysis all previous hypotheses as to the nature and etiology of the affection.
This passive acquiescence on their part naturally arrested the progress of knowledge regarding the disorder, and, its origin remaining so enveloped in doubtful theory, it is scarcely to be wondered at that the principles of its treatment were equally unsettled and involved in prejudice - hence the field par excellence afforded by rheumatism for the exercise of empiricism.
Still, while these strictures may legitimately apply to the writings of ancient physicians, it is pleasing to record that those of the earlier part of the nineteenth century displayed a laudable restiveness under these self-imposed shackles of authority and tradition.
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