The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell].
- Archibald Pitcairne
- Date:
- 1740
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![any other Excretion through the Pores of the Skin, or other Glands, can carry oft Fevers, whether continual or intermitting, with the fame Succefs as the faid American Bark or Flowers of Cammomile do an intermitting Fe¬ ver: And therefore he that would expel con¬ tinual Fevers with the defir’d Succefs, mull firft have experienced a Remedy as good as the Bark is for driving away Fevers; and therefore the Praife of this mu ft be referv’d to Chance and Fortune, and not to the Art, Sagacity, or Defign of Man. ] 8. We call that Body unknown to us, not only whole Weight and Figure, and Quan¬ tity, and Situation, and Quantity of Mo¬ tion, and Cohefion of Parts, and Forces of Attraction, are unknown to us ; but we fhall alfo call unknown, fuch an one whofe Weight and Colour we know, if we compare it with another, (as Gold,) but remain ignorant of the Cohefion of its Parts, and attractive Force, if we compare its Parts with the Parts of other Bodies: Thus Lead and Gold are Bodies unknown to us; that is, their inmoft Nature is not underftood by us Men* In one Word, that is unknown, all whofe Relations to other Bodies we are not ac¬ quainted with: And therefore no Body will ever (unlefs by Chance) change Lead into Gold, if he knows no more of their Na¬ tures than we do at prefent ; yet thofe Phy- ficians](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30509889_0292.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
