Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases : to which are added, a few experiments on the vegetation of plants / by Daniel Hill.

Date:: 1820

Credit: Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases : to which are added, a few experiments on the vegetation of plants / by Daniel Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$G men's heads, as they do of tlicir peruke?, by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right, but the received doctrines. 'I'ruth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at it's first appearance : ne\y opinions arc always suspected, and usually op- ])oscd, without any other reason, but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine. It is trial and examination must give it price, and not any antique fashion : and though it be not yet current by the public stamp; yet it may, for all that be as old as naturCy and is cer- tainly not the less genuine’*.’ That truth, and the sublime laws of nature, have been perverted or overlooked, will be proved to those, who read for information, and the high- est gratification of the human mind. Such will do well, to peruse a book entitled, ‘ Morsels of Criticism, tending to elucidate some few passages in Scripture upon Philosophical Principles,’ writ- ten by C. King, esqf. Whoever will candidly • Locke’s Epistle dedicatory to his Essay concerning Human Understanding. + ‘ And God said, ht there he formed a strength emnu [or consohdating] substance [or atmospherical air] in the midst oj the -water. And let it be a weans of separating through the midst, (or of dividing,) between water, and water. And it was so. * philosophical discoveries have of late years convinced us, that air is the great band, and support, holh of animal Bad vegetable life} and that it is even itself reduced to a$