"For as those Things which affect our Senses, are always esteem'd the surest and most infallible Test of every Doctrine; so a more than common Regard to those is necessary in our Attempts for the Advancement of Medicine; which as it is only conversible with sensible Bodies, ought not to admit any Thing for Truth which has not the Testimony of the Senses."
An Essay on the King's-Evil
2 entries in ESTC (1746).<br>
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See <u>An Essay on the King's-Evil: By Robert Willan, M.D.</u> (London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Longman; and sold by M. Cooper, 1746). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004788855.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;