A philosophical and medical sketch of the natural history of the human body and mind ; to which is subjoined, an essay On the difficulties of attaining medical knowledge, intended for the information and amusement of those who are, or are not, of the medical profession : published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath / by James Makittrick Adair, M. D. member of the Royal Medical Society, and fellow of the College of Physicians, at Edinburgh.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A philosophical and medical sketch of the natural history of the human body and mind ; to which is subjoined, an essay On the difficulties of attaining medical knowledge, intended for the information and amusement of those who are, or are not, of the medical profession : published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath / by James Makittrick Adair, M. D. member of the Royal Medical Society, and fellow of the College of Physicians, at Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. SOME of the purchafers of the Medical Cautions having informed the Author, that the EJfay on Regimen would have been more intelligible, had the medical reafoning been more clear and explicit ^ feveral expedi- ents were thought of to remove this objec- tion, as another edition will veiy foon be publiflied. Thofe authors on regimen, Dr. Arbuthnot particularly, who have written for general ufe, have been obliged to enter pretty fully into a feries of medical reafoning3 and yet the Do6lor, in his fecond edition, tells US', that his readers complained that he was not always intelligible. The reafon was fufficiently obvious 5 though the Do6lor did not remove the ob- jeclion. Nothing but a knowledge of the firft principles of an art, will ever enable us A3. to