Volume 5

The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author / [by T. Birch].

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1772
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Credit: The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author / [by T. Birch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    se ee sh virtuofi, mow that the quarrel is fo boldly begun by me. If you confider the writ- ing of Glanvill, you cannot fay, that-] proceed i in too exafperating a way; I did’ but write by his copy; nor had J equalled him but by out-doing him. Befides it dedication to both univerfities in my Animadverfions on the Hiffory. And what reafon the Royal Society had to deal fo with the phyficians, if it be true, that they which is like to be public in my preface to the Avimadverjions on-the Hiftory. The difingenuity with which } have been treated, admits of no apology; nor can my” lord Brounker ever acquit himfelf unto the world, for having bragged and told the earl of Aylesfbury, that he would licenfe it, if I-would fend it unto him, and yet declined it. It 1s very falfe printed, nor is the catalogue perfect as to thofe: material J did appoint fome to be corrected with a pen; but orders ata diftance: are ill obferved:; and Idurft not come up-to fee it done, for fear of fome mecha-. nical philofophers and their ftratagems. thofe few, that were entered in it, have deferted and detefted it, I am fure; and: fo Dr. Scarborough and others inform me. Nor dol hear of four intelligent and. eminent phyficians, that heartily adhere to the Society ; and it is evident, that they: betray their faculty, who doit. But this point I have largely handled in my fourth be publifhed till Michaelmas. As to thofe paffages, wherein you'feem concerned: in this piece, I did not think fitting to give you a particular account, becaufe you: were not directly concerned ; for in the-aérial column, and that eaely little altera-. tion: of the air may: be diftovered by the barometer, I only oppofe Glanvill,, whos fays it is. concluded to. be fo;, not. you; who make no fuch pofitive conclufion.. As: to the mixtures of liquors with blood, and their operating differently on-the. blood: in a pottinger, and. when injected into the veins, or affumed by the mouth, I did: give you notice Jong ago thereof, and that I did not think your argument for Sp.. itis printed, as if I held the opinion, that fuch mixtures, when injected,. and when made in a. pottinger,, were the fame; whereas I deny it aries and.my page £29) “ contradicts:
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