Copy 1, Volume 1

Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns].

  • John Burns
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dies, has received the name of corpufeu-* lar attra6lion. The principle, again, which regulates the inteftine changes, and de- termines the combinations and fpecific ftates of exiflence in matter, has been de^ nominated elective, or chemical attrac-: tion. How matter, which by itfelf, and viewed abftradedly, muft be confidered as inert and dead, fhould be capable of combining with this aeftive and imma- terial power, it is impolTible to fay. But having from the creation perceived this union, we find it to be now impractica- ble to form a conception of matter un- connedted with this property. \ Without this enlivening principle, all nature muft be dead; and matter de- prived of it muft either ceafe to exifi, or exift in a way which we cannot pofhbly
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