Remarks on the unity of the body, as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / [George Macilwain].

  • George Macilwain
Date:
1836
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Credit: Remarks on the unity of the body, as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / [George Macilwain]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    type—shall I say suggestion ?—has not been presented on the very surface of na- ture. We know not the nature of light, still less of the instrument by which the Creator puts it in such rapid motion; but | a thousand phenomena, of daily occurrence, illustrate its laws; nay, even its composite nature, a comparatively recent discovery, has always been exemplified in a pheno- menon no less striking than the rainbow. How strange it seems to us, when we con- sider such matters for the first time, that the principal agents in nature should be invisible ! as electricity, galvanism ; or that so much of matter, should be resolvable into invisible gases; yet we find a type of this in the very air we breathe; the substantial nature of which, if not suggested by re- spiration, is pleasingly disclosed to us in the fanning of the breeze, or strikingly de- monstrated in the sweeping of the tempest. It appears to have required the mind of a Newton, to have proved, by mathematical, the most approved method of human ratio- cination, that the hexagonal form of the bee-cell was actually the best possible for
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