A third dissertation on fever. Part I. Containing the history and method of treatment of a regular continued fever. Supposing it is left to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce].

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1798
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Credit: A third dissertation on fever. Part I. Containing the history and method of treatment of a regular continued fever. Supposing it is left to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .> All, thefe exertions of the mind are exer- tions of a certain power, but that power feems at firft, fight to be totally different from the mufcular power of the body; yet there is certainly this connection between them, that if the body has been fatigued with, ex- ercife, the mind cannot exert its powers of judgment, nor carry on any. procefs. by which it may determine the congruity of ideas.. A ftudent in mathematics, having once acquired. the knowledge fubfervient to the demonftration of a problem, would not beable, after having contended in an athle- tic game, to, trace the fteps by. which the problem was demonttrated. On the other hand, a mathematician, after having gone through a new and laborious -demonftration, would be unable to exert the — powers of his body in a fox chace, Whether, therefore, it be the fame power employed in the exertions of the mutfcles and the mind, or different powers, yet thefe powers. are fo connected together, that ‘the exertion of the one will pre-_ & : vere |