Of the spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapors, with their remedy. Being a lecture read at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1722. To which is added some anatomical observations in the dissection of an elephant / [William Stukeley].

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1723
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Credit: Of the spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapors, with their remedy. Being a lecture read at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1722. To which is added some anatomical observations in the dissection of an elephant / [William Stukeley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T O Sir HANS SLOAN, Bar*. M. T>. Prefdent of the College of Phyfcians, London, &c. S I R, HE fame reafon that produces this lecture before the world, afcertains its particular addrefs, becaufe upon reading it in the Theatre, you and the fellows of this illuftrious body, were pleas’d to exprels a defire that it Ihould be printed. From thence I no longer look’d upon it as my own, but was ready to facrifice every private confideration, rather than fail of the leaft duty and veneration, I owe fo great a fociety; to which I had fo lately the honor of being admit¬ ted, and by my faith given, promifed to read with¬ in a year upon fome anatomic fubjedf. ’Tis no wonder I Ihould confent to reft my own reputa¬ tion upon the credit and judgment of the Britijh college of phyficians, whofe fandtion is fuflicient to prepoflefs the favor of the moft diftant fons of Hippocrates; whofe fuffrage for true learning and folid