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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

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Erasmus Darwin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1731
Born: December 12
Died: 1802
Died: April 18
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