This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
[1797?]
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Credit: This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. The defign of the Author of Medical Ex¬ tracts is well, and fo juilly, explained in the Apology prefixed to the work, that we cannot do better than to give the writer’s own words. Apol. p. I. The Author of Medical Ex- tracts at firfi: propofed to have prefented to the public a concife view of the relation we “ (land in with regard to the air we breathe j and as the 'pneumatic chemijtry had been fuccefsfully introduced into the practice of phyfic^ this vo- lume was to have been fucceeded by Patho- logical Extracts relative to the exhibition of different airs \ but the progrefs of this new improvement in medicine has been fo flow, from the oppofition which naturally awaits eve- ry great undertaking, that although the infant fcion foon bloflbmed, and bore fruit, yet was the produd fcanty, and the tedious interval was therefore filled up, in giving the relations we (land in with refpe6l to Heat, Light, Food, Exercife, &c. and laftly, the objeds which excite the Mind through the medium of the fenfes.” Thus, amid numerous avocations, he has attempted to explain, more extenfively than has hitherto been done, the fyflem firfl: eftabliOied by the late Dr. Brown, as far as regards health, upon which the pneumatic prac- fye is engrafted, a fyflem not to be confidered as
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