Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society.

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1683/4
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Credit: Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AND] to the Hiftory of Blood [have ad- | ventur'd to begin. Perhaps it may not be altogether impertinent toadd, that I had once | fome Thoughts of a Defignation of a | Natural Hiftory of other Liquorsof a | humane Body, as well asthe Blood ; | I mean fuch as the Gall, the Lympha, the SuccusP ancreaticus Spittle,Urine, | Milk, @c: But Iquickly perceiv'd it | was fitfor me torefign fuch Tasks to | Phy ficians; only I fhall hereSubjoin,as a fimall ‘Specimen, a fet of Titles for the Hiftory of Urine, which though | by reafon ofits Affinity in many re-— gards to Blood, it mufthave many — Titles in. common with it, yet fome | will be differing according to: the na- ture of the Subjeé&t ; which (Liquor) I therefore pitchupon, becaufe 1 dare _ own to you, and I do it not without: Premeditation, andhaving.wrought onUrine longer than on(a)Blood itfelf, | that I think Urine to be! Liquor, | which, as much defpis’d' as.-it isby o- | thers, deferves to be folicitoufly en- } quir'd |