An essay on burns : principally upon those which happpen (sic) to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air, (or hydrogen gas) ... / By Edward Kentish.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832.
Date:
1797]
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Credit: An essay on burns : principally upon those which happpen (sic) to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air, (or hydrogen gas) ... / By Edward Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 'b AN ESSAY ON BURNS, PR.INCIPALLY UPON THOSE WHICH HAPPPLN TO WORKMEN IN MINES FROM THE Explojlons of Inflammable Air, (or Hydrogen Gas. J CONTAINING A VIEW OF THE OPINIONS OF ANTIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS UPON THE SUBJECT OF BURNS; AND A VARIETY OF CASES CONDUCTED UPON DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES: FROM WHICH AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO RESCUE-THIS PART OF THF. HEALING ART FROM EMPIRICISM, AND TO REDUCE IT TO THE LAWS OF THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. By EDWARD KENTISH, Surgeon. ct The allignment of a multiplicity of caufes, to account for particular “ phenomena, always betokens a backward ftate of knowledge. The “ bufinefs of fcience is to generalife fadts, to clafs phenomena under “ diftinct heads, and (hew their dependence upon a common principle “ or caufe. In the progrefs of human reafon, polytheifm has yielded to “ the exiftence of one God ; the intricate and feemingiy oppofite phe- “ nomena of matter and motion have been referred to one general law of gravitation; the puzzling and diverfified appearances of eledlri- “ city have been reduced to a few plain rules the multitude of fa<5t« ** concerning light and colours have been in like manner arranged into “ a fdendfic form; and both the rainbow and the telescope bear ** witnefs to the finiplicity of optics.” S. L. Mitchell, M. D. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J, ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW ; W. CREECH, EDINBURGH; J, TODD, YORK; AND J. BELL, NEWCASTLE. PRICE 3*. 61. /