"It is evident, indeed, that the practitioner who has no faith in the eflicacy of his art, can not devote himself to the study and practice of it, with the necessary zeal and perseverance. But, it will not suffice for the physician only to be convinced of the utility of the remedies he prescribes; it is also very advantageous to the success of the treatment, if the patient share his confidence in them. It is, then, important to all of us, to form early a reasonable opinion on the degree of efficacy and certainty that may be attained in medicine. Now we shall not be able to draw the motives of such an opinion from any better source than the history of this science."
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Pierre-Victor Renouard, History of Medicine: From Its Origin to the Nineteenth Century, with an Appendix, Containing a Philosophical and Historical Review of Medicine to the Present Time (1867)
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