Remarks on Mr John Bell's anatomy of the heart and arteries / [by Jonathan Dawplucker].

  • John Barclay
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: Remarks on Mr John Bell's anatomy of the heart and arteries / [by Jonathan Dawplucker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    a [ *6 ] miftry, the correclnefs of the reafoning, the gran* “ deur which now the whole fcience afiumes, is very “plea/in?, and makes us not without hope that in this “ fcience all others, and ours in an efpecial manner, “ may be improved.” (P. ioi.)—His readers might be at a lofs to know whether it is the Jimplicity, cor- reElnefs, or grandeur of chemiftry, or altogether be- ing very pleajing, which leads our author to form thefe hopes; but Me tells us himfelf, at the end of the fentence, “ For the action of velfels will do much in “ forming and changing our fluids; all the reft is che- “ miftry alone.” This is a very fatisfaclory reafon, and not the lefs fo that it is totally deftitute of mean- ing. “ The older chemifts were coarfe in their methods, “ bold in their conjectures, in theory eafily fatisfied “ with any thing which others would receive. They “ condefcended to repeat inceflantly the fame unva- “ rying procefs over each article of the materia me- 61 dica ; and among hundreds of medicinal plants <e which they had thus analyfed, they could find no “ variety of principles, nor any other variety of parts “ and names than thofe of phlegm, and oil, and al- 44 kali, and acid, and fulphur, and coal.” (P. p. ioi, 102. Reader, thefe older chemifts were Sir Ifaac Newton, Boyle, Boerhaave, Hales, Stahl, Homberg,Geoftroy, &-c. the founders of the fcience ; entitled to the refpect and veneration of every chemift, and many of them the authors of difcoveries which have been the glory of their country and of their age.
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