Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation; or, if changed, that they are recomposed and regain their active properties / [Edward Darrell Smith].

  • Edward Darrell Smith
Date:
1800
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Credit: Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation; or, if changed, that they are recomposed and regain their active properties / [Edward Darrell Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GSA Se AME, Ae ARS RA” i INAUGURAL DISSERTATION, dt | bis ee eee Hh OP Of the “hore of the nie — “Dae pre meer queftion is not migtly of a fect . lative nature, interefting only to the curious obfery- er, and not to the practical phyfician. It embraces . a wider fcope, and the determination of it will be. of effential importance in many cafes that fall un- > der our notice. A fiiperficial view of the fubjec _ may induce us to fuppofe, that it cannot be of any | real utility; but by the refleCting enquirer, a differ... ent opinion will be formed. In endeavouring to . inveftigate a queftion of this nature, we ought to — difcard the ingenious fubtilties of metaphyfical rea-. foning, which often confufe, while they do not. convict. Our data fhould be facts well authenti- | cated, from which we are to draw fair and juft conclufions. ‘Taking truth for our guide, and — not fuffering ourfelves to be warped by a prejudice for any particular opinion or theory, however plau- fible, we fhall moft probably accomplifh the object of our purfuit. It is to be obferved, that the an- cients were ftrongly imprefled with the idea, that
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