Volume 1

Three lectures on the organs of respiration / Read at the Royal College of Physicians at London, A.D. MDCCXXXVII. Being the Gulstonian Lectures for that year. To which is added an appendix, containing remarks on some experiments of Dr. Houston's, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, for the year 1736.

  • Benjamin Hoadly
Date:
1740
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Credit: Three lectures on the organs of respiration / Read at the Royal College of Physicians at London, A.D. MDCCXXXVII. Being the Gulstonian Lectures for that year. To which is added an appendix, containing remarks on some experiments of Dr. Houston's, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, for the year 1736. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Dileafes of the Oxeans, ee. 64 affected, as this or that Part is prevented from performing its Share in the Action of Refpiration; and thefe external Appear- _ ances fo difturbed, are the Symptoms attending upon the Dif- eafes of the Organs of Refpiration, and the neceflary Confe- quences of the imperfect Actions of thefe Organs fo difeafed. We fhall in this Lecture, therefore, take a Review of al] the different Parts deicribed above, and confider them in a dif. ferent Light from what we did before, in order to. point out what particular Changes in the outward Appearances will follow upon any Difeafe in one or more of them. Sucu a Review will not only be of Service to us in dedu- cing the Seat of any Difeafe from the Symptoms which attend upon it, and confequently in directing us to the Method we ought moft reafonably to follow in our Attempts to remove it 4 but it will likewife affift us in our Philofophical Enquiries into this Part of the Animal Occonomy. F or fince the Symptoms which attend any Difeafe are the true and necefflary Confequences of the imperfect Actions of the Parts, whilft they are difordered ; they may be derived from the particular Diforders to which they are owing, provided we are fufficiently acquainted with the true Make of the Parts, and all the Requifites to their acting properly : and confequently, fo far as we are able, from the Seat and firft Caufe of a Difeafe to de- rive the Symptoms which attend it, fo far, and no farther, may we depend upon the Goodnefs of our Theory of the Animal Oeconomy. Every Difeafe, therefore, with its Train of Symptoms, con- fidered in this Light, is a fort of Experiment offered us by Na- ture herfelf, by which we may fairly try how far our Knowledge extends, and whether the Notions we have entertained in our Attemptsto explain the Animal Oeconomy are well or ill groun- ded, and confequently whether they are to be retained or ree jected. K 2 LET