Testimonials from James Sanders, M.D : member of the Royal College of Physicians, and lecturer on the practice of physic, as candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, in the University of Edinburgh, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, and the other members of the Town Council.
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- [1821]
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Credit: Testimonials from James Sanders, M.D : member of the Royal College of Physicians, and lecturer on the practice of physic, as candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, in the University of Edinburgh, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, and the other members of the Town Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![u Thorax, read in the Royal Medical Society, and inserted in their records for the Session of ] 804—5, gives a brief account of them, and considers them as of great utility, in elucidating his observations on that important pathological subject. Dr Hinton Spalding, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, now an eminent physician in Jamai- ca, in an essay in the records of the same Society 1806—7, on the question, Are the lungs passive in respiration ? narrates in detail, these experi- ments, many of which he saw performed ; and, after a brief review of the experiments of the British and French philosophers on the same subject, considers mine to be more complete, and to afford a more sa- tisfactory illustration of the question, which he had undertaken to discuss. While watching the effects of the various reme- dies used in pulmonic, and other affections, it fre- quently obtruded itself upon me, how inaccurate all observations must be, while so little was understood of the manner in which the action of the blood ves- sels, as indicated by the pulse, is influenced by the passions, by the posture, and movements of the body, the various articles of diet, as well as by the articles of the materia medica. Accordingly, I made au immense range of experiments and observations on this question, which I brought together in the form of an essay ; and I presented it to the Royal Medical Society, 1604—5, entitled, What are the effects of time of day, food, posture, and exercise on the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21482937_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
