Copy 1, Volume 1

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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    The FourtH VotuMe is employed in thie confideration of the Third Law, “ that the exceffiive action of ftimuli exhaufts the irs ritable principle in the blood;’ and here the action of different pozfons is fully confidered, with the methodus medendi, or antidote. The Firrn VoLuME is a continuation of the Jame fubjec?, fhewing more particularly the’ rife and progrefs of Pueumatic Medicine. Thus have we attempted to fet forth the Brunonian Syftem, as improved by the lateft difcoveries in chemiftry and medicine; and, perhaps, we fhall be faid to have aimed at the eftablifhment of a New Syffent of phy- fiology and medicine, which hath arifen out of the old, like the phoenix from the athes of its parent, carrying on its wings the means of preferving health, and warding off difeafe; a fyftem not to be confidered in itfelf as perfect, but only as the foundation of a better ftructure; which future induftry may erect, and which may not moulder, like other fabricks, into the fand of which they were compofed, but as being founded upon facts, and reafonings drawn EC them, may ftand
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