A physical essay on the animal oecomomy. Wherein the circulation of the blood, and its causes are particulary consider'd, also what assistance the heart and lungs give thereto ... To which are added, some ... remarks on inflammatory disorders / [Francis Penrose].

  • Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798
Date:
1754
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Credit: A physical essay on the animal oecomomy. Wherein the circulation of the blood, and its causes are particulary consider'd, also what assistance the heart and lungs give thereto ... To which are added, some ... remarks on inflammatory disorders / [Francis Penrose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .. i i A N ESSAY ON THE ANIMAL OECONOMY, HAVING found, from the general Opi¬ nion of phyfical Writers, that the Hu¬ man Frame is a compleat Piece of Me- chanifm, and that to underftand the mechanical Ufe of each Part muft be of great Benefit both in Phyfick and Surgery3 upon this Opinion I have endeavoured to fearch out what are the prin¬ cipal Parts, and what their particular Ufes 3 and tho’ fome few Phyficians may think Natural Philofophy not at all concerned with Phyfick, or, at mod, that a Man may be a good Phyfi- cian without underftanding any Part of it 3 yet, I doubt not but the confiderate Part of the World, when they come to think, will then agree, that the Theory of Phyfick and Surgery is founded, and muft be built upon Anatomy, Philofophy, and Mechanicks, and that a tolerable Degree of Know¬ ledge in all thefe Sciences is necellary to make a good Phyfician. This, I think, is a Fa£t which will not bear a Difpute, except it is by thofe that go on quite in an empiretical Way, without any A 2 Regard