An address before the Medical Society of North Carolina at its second annual meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851
By: by Charles E. Johnson
Contributors: Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Meeting; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diseases; Causes and theories of causation; Malaria; Etiology; Medical logic
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: The address opens with remarks on the importance of training and moral character in physicians.  The author then goes on to his main topic, the causes of disease, especially focusing on the current belief of the "malarious" or "miasmatic" origin of disease.  He firmly states that, after many years of observation and medical practice, he is convinced that the greater incidence of sickness in marshy, lowland areas is not due to miasm, an exhalation from decaying vegetable matter.  He explains his conclusion by detailing the conditions of scientific hypotheses and inductive reasoning and then applying them to an assembly of medical facts and reports on miasma.
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Transcribed from: An address before the Medical Society of North Carolina at its second annual meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851 / by Charles E. Johnson, M.D. Raleigh, [N.C.] : Seaton Gales, publisher, 1851. 32 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references.

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