Observations on the history and cause of asthma : and a review of A practical enquiry on disordered respiration, in a letter to Robert Bree, M.D., the author of that work / by George Lipscomb.

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1800
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    comparatively, few improvements in the pradice of medicine. GOD has been pleafed, in his wifdom, to eila- blifli a relationlbip between the affinities of bodies, by a feries of dependencies,, which, fpringing one out of another, conftitute an univerfal chain j of whofe links, only a few are perceptible by the limit- ed powers of his creatures. Thefe links then, are called caufes and effeds, but our imperfed difeern- ment, only grafps at fome of them, continues its refearclies through a few more, then lofcs itfelf in vifionary hypothefis or vague conjedure; jumps, perhaps, again, upon a different part of the feries, and ultimately acquires juft fufficient knowledge of the whole, to admire the wonderful intelligence and perfedion of its primeval caufe. But, notwithftanding this ftate of imperfedion, the mind is endowed with a conftant adivity, never refting fatisfied with its prefent acquirements, but delighting in purfuing its fpeculations, although fo unfortunately prone to wander from the truth. It is only by attending to the experience that one event * fprings out of another, that we efta- bliffi the idea of the mutual relation between caufe and effed: and the mind being capable of fup- pofing an exiftence, independent oi any caufe, is * Fordyce. apt