Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gentlemen, even of the belt education and learning, however they may fhine in other fciences, are moft grofsly ignorant in this; and though they endeavour to acquire fuch a competent knowledge of law as to guard themfelves from the knavery of the un¬ principled in the profeffion, and of the fword and piftol to defend themfelves from, that of the honourable fraternity of gamblers; they often fubmit their lives to the moft ig¬ norant quacks, let their mode of treating them run ever fo plump, in every refpedt, againft common fenfe. It is for the en¬ couragement of fuch, that I fhall endeavour to remove fome of the rubbifh that obftrudts their way in their profecuting this, by far the moft ufeful and agreeable branch of na¬ tural philofophy. When the immortal Harvey demonftrated the circulation of the blood, great expedi¬ tions were formed of the advantages likely to accrue to the pradiice of phyfic from fo capital a difcovery. But to confefs the truth, by comparing the writers before with thofe fince that time, it appears that very b 2 little
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