The Empirics based these views upon the teaching of philosophers known as Sceptics or Zetetics, followers of Parmenides and Pyrrho, who taught that it was useless to fatigue the mind in endeavouring to comprehend what is beyond its range.
The higher order of empirics have always availed themselves of the wonderful faculty possessed by nature of taking good care of herself.
Steele has transmitted to us some capital anecdotes of the empirics of his day.
Two empirics he stands, and with swoll'n cheeks Inspires the news, his trumpet.
Sydenham says that the heating regimen was the practice of empirics and sciolists.
But it is clear from the essays or advertisements of empirics that agues were discovered in many forms of sickness that were neither intermittent fevers nor fevers of any distinctive type.
By a strange fatality, the most sensible people consent to be the dupes of these empirics who are perpetually obliged to avow their own profound ignorance.
The extent to which advertising empirics and patent medicines are flourishing is an undeniable proof of the prevalence of the maladies they professedly relieve.
The first consideration to support this view may be found in the army of advertising empiricswho make it a source of revenue.
Among that few, the principal portion doubtless would be the advertising empirics whose disgusting announcements occupy so much space in the columns of our daily journals.
That prince of empirics the Count Cagliostro sold his Balm of Life, or stomach elixir, at an exorbitant price.
Empirics have a myriad of medicines, as to swallow a bullet of lead, &c.
Empirics may ease, and sometimes help, but not thoroughly root out; sublata causa tollitur effectus as the saying is, if the cause be removed, the effect is likewise vanquished.
These abuses daily increase since the Censors, discouraged by the multitude of Empirics swarming in every Corner, have omitted their wonted searches, being to their loss of time, and expences out of their own Purses for the publick good only.
Some of the stratagems resorted to by needy empirics to get into practice are very ingenious, and many a regular physician has been obliged to have recourse to similar artifices to procure employment.
Butler uses this verb as descriptive of the encomiums empirics heap upon their nostrums.
Everything was conjecture, and that which rested on the evidence of facts was by the empirics received with enthusiasm.
The empirics opposed the idea that inaccessible and occult causes of disease could become the basis for rational treatment.
Thus, empiricism as a school of practice became placed upon a firmer and firmer foundation, and the empirics of that day seem to have laid the true basis of our art.
Daily are seen illiterate and audacious empirics sporting with the lives of a credulous public, that seem obstinately resolved to shut their ears against all the suggestions of reason and experience.
Those who have treated of the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatical.
And this is the cause why empirics and old women are more happy many times in their cures than learned physicians, because they are more religious in holding their medicines.
And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me, to the empirics that slaughter them?
Bleeding therefore, being both a cooler and a purifier, was a specific in all diseases for all diseases were febrile, whatever empirics might say.
By a strange fatality, the most sensible people consent to be the dupes of those empirics who are perpetually obliged to avow their own profound ignorance.
Bleeding, therefore, being both a cooler and a purifier, was a specific in all diseases, for all diseases were febrile, whatever empirics might say.
And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me to the empirics that slaughter them?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empirics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
