Volume 2

Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples / [Sir Gilbert Blane].

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples / [Sir Gilbert Blane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aspect, with those of navigation and agri- culture. Had man been furnished by the Creator with wings, by which he could have traversed all seas and oceans, so as to supersede the use of ships, where would have been that hardihood of cha- racter, and all those ingenious devices, which have called forth the active ener- gies and deep researches of the human mind? If, contrary to the actual institu- tions of Providence, the life of man had been sustained by the spontaneous produc- tions of nature, instead of the products of industry, neither the faculties of the mind, nor the powers of the body, could ever have been developed; man would have been little superior to the brutes; his ac- tive and inventive energies would have lain asleep for ever; there would have been no room for the talents exercised in the procuring of food, raiment, and shel- ter, nor in commercial intercourse; all the mutual and endearing ties, and de- pendences of social and civilized life, all trades, professions, arts, and sciences, whether ministering to accommodation, or