An oration. On the improvement of medicine: pronuonced [sic] before a respectable auditory of citizens, in the Federal Hall in the city of New-York; according to appointment of the Medical Society of the State of New York: at their anniversary meeting, on the 16th January, 1794 / [Amasa Dingley].

  • Dingley, Amasa, -1798
Date:
1795
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Credit: An oration. On the improvement of medicine: pronuonced [sic] before a respectable auditory of citizens, in the Federal Hall in the city of New-York; according to appointment of the Medical Society of the State of New York: at their anniversary meeting, on the 16th January, 1794 / [Amasa Dingley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “-, 4 eperations of nature. To give a triumph and confum- difcovery of its action and effeéts on animal bodies. In doing this, we have reafon to hope, that many of the perplexities that have hitherto embarraffed the dcottrines of inflammation and animal heat, as well as feveral other phenomena of the animal ecanomy will be happily folved. Is_ electricity an inflammable fluid, fubjet to a law of elective attraction ? If heat be the ofcillatory motion of the minute particles of bodies, wherein does animal and vegetable heat differ from that of inanimate or unorganized * bodies? What are the extremes of heat confiftent with animal and vegetable life ? What degrees of heat ere fufficient to deftroy animal, vegetable, mineral, and aerial poifons and contagions? The fubject of poifons and contagions opens an immenfe’ field for the re- fearches of Medical Philofophy. Iv ftill remains to determine the ful! effects of warm and cool bathing, both partial and general, on animal bodies. The baths lately made in this city and its neigh- bourhood, afford excellent opportunities for experiments in this fubje&. What are the combined operations of moifture, under different degrees of temperature, motion and preflure ? | Ir is now well known, if a perfon fhould be immerged two feet under water, and the area of his fkin be fifteen fing on his whole furface, added to that of the air, equal to two thoufand two hundred and eighty pounds. How will y ‘ Moe amma . . * L’Organization, le fentiment, le movement fpontané, la vie, n’exift- ent qu’a la furface de la terre, etdans le licux expofes a ka lanucre. Traité de Chymie par M, Lavoifer,
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