The philosophy of the moving powers of the blood / by G. Calvert Holland.

Date:
1844
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Credit: The philosophy of the moving powers of the blood / by G. Calvert Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    VREFACE. ' would scarcely be supposed that a truth so obvious, and pregnaut with such important considerations, would, in an age of stirring and restless inquiry, have been entirely lost sight of. Entertaining these sentiments the author determined to devote the labour of yeai-s to a critical analysis of received doctrines, fully convinced that the undertaking, if carried out in an euUghtened and impartial spirit, would lead to juster views—open a field—^vast in extent and teeming with unexplored riches, the cultivation of wliich would throw new light on the origin, nature, and treatment of disease. A knowledge of the varying conditions of the circulation, and the corresponding alterations in the qualities of the blood, is the only secure foundation on which theories can be built to direct practice. Every step which elucidates the laws governing these changes, is in the path of truth,— and is placing fresh powers in the hands of the scientific physician, by which he will see farther, and with a clearer vision, into the constitution of man. When he had completed his inquiries, he submitted them to the judgment of friends well calculated to form a sound opinion of their value, and although this was favourable he hesitated in giving them to the world. Anxious to test, still further, their worth, they appeared in successive numbers of one of the first scientific medical
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