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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    io felves would, independent of the prefence of mind, diflinguifh them from vege- tables. We have, then, in the three clafTes of nature, three different fpecies of life, each more perfedt than the other, and increaf- ing gradually in their delicacy and intri- cacy. The moft fimple, or that of mat- ter, is the mofl permanent, and on it the other two are built. I do not, however, mean from this to fay, that attraction or the vital principle of matter, acts in the higher claffes merely as attraction ; or, in other words, that it remains unchang- ed in its properties. On the contrary, a very great alteration takes place; and, al- though it (till poffeffes the quality ex- * This term is ufed fometimes for the caufc and fome- times for the effedt; but the fenfe will always fhow how it is to be underftood.
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