Observations on animal electricity : in explanation of the metallic operation of Doctor Perkins / by John Vaughan, M.P.M.S. ; fellow of the Medical Society of Delaware.

  • Vaughan, John, 1775-1807.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Observations on animal electricity : in explanation of the metallic operation of Doctor Perkins / by John Vaughan, M.P.M.S. ; fellow of the Medical Society of Delaware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS O N Animal Electricity. NOTHING has been fo great an obftacle to the advancement of Medical Science, as the partiality and obfequious regard which the generality of Phyficians of all ages have paid to great authorities. For whilft they difregard the teftimony of their fenfes, and indolently alTent to things on the credit of others, they remain paffive dupes to their own credu- lity, and feldom examine whether they are right or wrong. An error thus admitted, is reluctantly corrected, and becomes the copious fource from which numberlefs falfe opinions flow. There are perhaps but few that are not diffi- dent in deviating from principles eftabliihed by men of general erudition, whofc geniufes were qualified to interrogate nature with fuccefs :— Bit an error once difcovered mould be imme- diately corrected, in opposition to the ipfe dixit of all the dogmatifts of feventeen centuries.— Man by nature poiTeffes a nifus formativus^ and B