A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

  • Richard Mead
Date:
1729
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Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    befl Phyfictan, who having the fame ajfiftaucecf Obfervatio#$ and Hifiortcs with others,does befijtnderjf and the Human Oe- conomy, the Texture of the Parts, Motions of the Fluids, and the Power which other Bodies have to make Alterations in any of thefe. * * i *v ■. v . ■ ■ .. \ : j Nor indeed ought any One to doubt of this, who confiders that the Animal Compages is not an irregular Mafs, and diforderly Jumble of Atoms, but the Contrivance of infinite TVtfdom, and Mafter-piece of that Creating Power, who has, been pleafed to, do all things by efiablifi/d Laws and Rules, and that Harmony and Proportion Ihould be the Beauty of all his Works. % * * r * ■**, ^ . ' ■*' *- • ' - It were therefore heartily to be wijh’d, that thofe Gentle¬ men who are Jo much afraid of introducing Mathematical 5tudies, that is. Demonfir at ion and Truth, into the Brattice of Phyfic^ were Jo far at leafl infirutted in the neceffary Difciplines, as to be able to pafs a true Judg¬ ment5 what Progrefs and Advances may be made this way ; they would not then perhaps decry an Attempt of fo much Moment to the welfare of Mankind, as vain and impof- Jible, becaufe it is difficult, and requires Application and Fains. It is very evident, that all other Methods of improving Medicine have been found Ineffectual^ by the Stand it has been at thefe two or three thoufand Tears; and that fince of late Mathematicians have fet themfelves to the Study of it. Men do already begin to talk^ fo Intelligibly and Com- prehenfibly, even about abftrufe Matters, that it may be hop'd in a fbort time, if thofe who are defgnyd for this? Profellion, are early, while their Minds and Bodies are patient of Labour and Toil, initiated in the Knowledge of Numbers and Geometry, that Mathematical Learning will be the diflinguifbing Marf of a Phyfician from a> Quackj and that he who wants this neceffary Qualifi¬ cation5 will be as ridiculous as one without Greek or ^ atin. I have,
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