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Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng].

  • Flemyng, Malcolm, -1764
Date:
1763
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Credit: Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed this epiftle, tho’ it be feemingly pre¬ mature at prefent. If this be not his meaning, I own I am fo dull as not to be able to make any fenfe at all of it. But before I proceed farther, let me obferve, that the Reviewer’s firft fentence was not only feemingly, but certainly premature, becaufe he changes his mind before he nnifhes his reflexions on the Letter under review ; which, fetting aflde verbal quo¬ tations from it, fcarce make one page in odavo : but let us go on. The grand queftion remaining was. What could that event be? I believe I have at length found it out. If I am mis¬ taken, it is not wilfully, but through his dark and enigmatical, or, which is ftill more puzzling, his inconfiftent manner of writing. The Critical Reviewer,in his account of Dr. Stork’s third and lafl: treatife on the Virtues of the Cicuta, informs his read¬ ers, that a fociety of gentlemen, pro¬ perly qualified for the purpofe, had un¬ dertaken to enquire into its effeds here at home, in order to determine whether it is as much to be depended upon for the cure of feveral obftinate and grievous dif- eafes, as Dr. Stork, and other celebrated foreign phyflcians and furgeons have given out. And he juftly waves paffing any