An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton].
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- Date:
- 1792?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that their authors were at leaft interefted in the theoretical, if not in the practical part of generation. We are not therefore to be furprifed, that the attempt to folve this great problem of nature encreafed rapidly, beyond the power of numbering, leaving no paflage untrod which afforded any hopes of leading to a folution of - the myftery ; hence there hardly exifts an- other fpot in the whole region of natural knowledge, furrounded by more intricate ]a- byrinths, or falfe guides than this. Drelingcourt,.a teacher of Boerhaave’s, collected no lefs than two hundred and fixty- two vague hypothefes on generation, from the writings of earlier writers. In fpite of the aftonifhing variety, and number of paths, which feemed to lead to the {olution of this phyfiological problem, yet they are all of them but fo many branches of two principal roads; the one conducting to the . doGtrine](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33281907_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
