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The philosophy of medicine: or, medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal œconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by A friend to improvements.

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1799-1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The philosophy of medicine: or, medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal œconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by A friend to improvements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STR JOSEPH BANKS, BARONET, K.B. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, &c, &c. &c. SIR 9 AS patron of the liberal feiences, and more efpecially from the native bene- — volence of your difpofition, as the favourer of every attempt that may tend to confirm the health, and remove the afflictions of mankind, this Work is humbly prefented to your notice. It is prefumed, that.it will be found amu- fing to the philofopher, who .confiders the human frame asa part, and certainly not the leat interefting part, of natural hiftory. It places man in the centre, and fhews his relationfhip to the feveral objeéts which furround him, a2 nig
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