A philosophical and medical sketch of the natural history of the human body and mind ; to which is subjoined, an essay On the difficulties of attaining medical knowledge, intended for the information and amusement of those who are, or are not, of the medical profession : published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath / by James Makittrick Adair, M. D. member of the Royal Medical Society, and fellow of the College of Physicians, at Edinburgh.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A philosophical and medical sketch of the natural history of the human body and mind ; to which is subjoined, an essay On the difficulties of attaining medical knowledge, intended for the information and amusement of those who are, or are not, of the medical profession : published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath / by James Makittrick Adair, M. D. member of the Royal Medical Society, and fellow of the College of Physicians, at Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ^2 ] B O O K II. OF THE ANIMAL FUNCTIONS. CHAP. I. of the FmiBions of the Body^ and its ^alities— How dijiingiiijhed—The Animal FunBiom-— Senfation, the Sources and Injiruments of it —Caufes of morbid Senfbility—MufcularMo- tion—Its DefeSts—External Senfes—Seeing —Hearing—Stnelling—T^afte— 'Touch—Re- marks on the morbid Aff'eBions of the external Senfes—Sleeps its effeSls—Important Remark. F^OR the fake of precifion, the fun6lions or offices of the organs of our bodies are diflinguifhed from each other j but they are fo complicated, that no accurate divifion of them can be made. They are, however, generally divided into Animal^ Vital, and Na- tural, each of which will be explained when we treat of them. The ^alities are fuch circumftances as re- late to the general afpeft or appearance of the body, or of particular parts; as the coun- tenance, eyes, colour of the (kin, appearance of the excretions, &c. rpi ^