Medical sketches: in two parts / by John Moore, M.D.

  • Moore, John, 1729-1802.
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches: in two parts / by John Moore, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    The Seven Sketches, which form the, Firft Part of this Work, were afterwards compofed upon other oc- caOons. They are attempts to explain, in familiar language certain procefles continually carried on in the animal oeconomy, which are not only curious in themfelves, but efTential to life ; and furely as in- terefting to mankind as any other part of natural phi- lofophy. They may therefore be canfidered as no improper introduction to the Practical EfTays which follow; but which, after all, I prefent to the Public with great diffidence, being confeious that dogmatic confidence in our own opinions never ftands upon more flippery ground, or is more expofed to ridicule, than when thofe opinions regard the art of medicine*