Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples1825 - 80 psl. |
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abscess action admit adverted agencies alleged animal economy applied ascer ascertained assimilative belong blood Boerhaave called cause and effect Charles Hatchett chemical chiefly circumstances consists constitution credulity cure degree disease disorders doctrine dropsy empiricism energy enumerated epidemick erysipelas excess excited exemplified existence experience external facts faculties fallacious false farther fluids functions gangrene gout hæmorrhage heat Hippocrates human Humphry Davy important inanimate matter indispensable inductive reasoning inflammation influence instance John Hunter knowledge labour means medicine mind morbid motion muscular nature nervous objects observation operation opium organs particularly peculiar pernicious persons Philosophical physician physick physiologists physiology prac practice practitioners principle produced proof proved rational reason regard remarked remedies rience salutary scrofulous secretion seems sensible heat solid SOURCE OF ERROR species stomach temperature theory tical tion truth various vegetable virtue viscera viscus vital whole yellow fever
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