An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain : in five essays being the substance of the Chandos lectures for the year 1739, and some subsequent years / By Thomas Simson.

  • Thomas Simson
Date:
1752
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Credit: An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain : in five essays being the substance of the Chandos lectures for the year 1739, and some subsequent years / By Thomas Simson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t [ «J ] ferted ever fince the force of the air has been regarded; but never fo well illuf rated, till of late the Reverend Dr, Hales made a calcula¬ tion of it, as fhewing itfelf in his experiments. And many of the changes thefe aBions undergo in irregular cafes, offer themfelves to confirm our doBrinc, and Jeem to bring us to a jufier view of fome very confiderabk difeafes, and to pro¬ vide materials for augmenting our aphorifiical maxims. But I Jhall not further infifi upon my own opinion on a fubjeB which I put into your hands to judge of who will be Jure to form your opinion as the evidence and weight of ar¬ gument Jhall direB you: therefore I leave it to you to determine how far I havefollowed Hippo¬ crates^ example ; how far I have been attentive to the mofi material phenomena, and viewed their dependencies. If I have in any degree at¬ tained to this, my thanks are due to you who Jirfi laid the plan, for purfuing my fiudies, be¬ fore me, and recommended Hippocrates fo warmly for an example, as one well fkilled in all the literature of the antient Greeks, and ani¬ mated with their fcientifick fpirit: permit me therefore to infcribe to you the following Bffuys, as a fmall tefiimonial of my fenfe of your fa¬ vours,