A treatise on the cause and cure of swelled legs, on dropsies ... ; to which is added a tract on the absolute necessity of encouraging the study of anatomy ... [etc.].

William Rowley

Date:: 1796

Credit: A treatise on the cause and cure of swelled legs, on dropsies ... ; to which is added a tract on the absolute necessity of encouraging the study of anatomy ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$comprehended from the fnpply of callus in large frac- tures, and even after the operation of the trepan, in which the bony fubftance fuffers a lofs. The bones in long confirmed droplies totter, and fcarcely fup- port the huge, diflendcd body; cartilages and liga- ments fuffer from the general relaxation, and muf- cular motion is avoided as much as poffible: in- dolence, and a defire of reft, are amongft the lead- Dissections, &c. Observations. of mankind, fhould tuit, liinc merito vitale appejlatu-r. Hoc be, to afeertain whe- principium elementa cogitad longe connu- tlier what they defire bia ineunda, quam hzec juxta vulgaresafi- be .attainable or npt, fiyitates cbcmica leges ini rent. Ope hujns and if attainable, whe- principii natura humorcs producii animalcs, ther likely to prove ut fanguinem, bilem, demen vir-ile, & ce- ll feful : for as nothing teros, quos ars cbcmica nun quam producers can be more degrad- valet. • jffig than trifling and M. Fourcroy obferves-r-“ li’analyfe de's ufelefs pnrfuits, fo no- fubftances animates eft la partie de la chi- thing can be more lan- mie la plus difficile & la moins avancee,” dable than,the fen fible &c, &c.<: J • . f . direction of the mind Cbaptal fays—“ The chemift muft fearcb to thofe objeefts, which, for his refuks rather in the liking body it- when acquired, force felf, than in the operations of his .laborer univerfal aflent, and tory, and can have no affiftance from his which are likely to aualyjis, but in af curtaining. the nature of ftand the teft of all their component parts,” &c. &c. future ages. Ptieu- The vital principle is united to the body mattes, perhaps, when during the life of man, and various funo better underftood, may tiops are performed ; who then can, with become ufeful auxilia- true reafoning, affirm that what is difeo- ries in the cure of fome v^red by fire, acids, putrefaction, ike. difeafes, as well as elec- after death, was prefent and afted on the tricity; but to abandon conftitutiOn during lifer Hence the ab- abfolute faffs,,long ef- furefity of hafty conflufions, on what even tabliflied, for novel, hy- Fourcroy himfelf calls an hypotbejis in which pothetical, and uncer- many particles, at prefent unknown, may tain doctrines, would hereafter be difeovered, and thus ne\v be lofing the fubftance names may again be invented. I think the Pnd catching at fha- fiyj‘pmina are already exceeding all ufeful dows. bounds. F 2 ing$