An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays, on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation / by Thomas Young.
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- 1823
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Credit: An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays, on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation / by Thomas Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE CROONJAN LECTURE. ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES, By THOMAS YOUNG, M D. For. Sec. R.S. [Read before the Royal Society, 10 Nov., 1808.] The mechanical motions, which take place in an animal body, are regulated by the same general laws as the motions of inanimate bodies. Thus the force of gravitation acts pre- cisely in the same manner, and in the same degree, on living as on dead matter ; the laws of optics are most accurately observed by all the refractive substances belonging to the eye; and there is no casein which it can be proved, that animated bodies are exempted from any of the affections to which inanimate bodies are liable, except when the powers of life are capable of instituting a process, calculated to overcome those affections, by others, which are commen- surate to them, and which are of a contrary tendency. For example, animal bodies are incapable of being frozen by a considerable degree of cold, because animals have the power of generating heat; but the skin of an animal has no power of generating an acid, or an alkali, to neutralise the action t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21915805_0639.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
