A synopsis of a course of lectures, on the theory and practice of medicine. In four parts. Part the first. / [Benjamin Waterhouse].

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1786
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Credit: A synopsis of a course of lectures, on the theory and practice of medicine. In four parts. Part the first. / [Benjamin Waterhouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In confederation of your various purfuits, wfe have gone one iiep further, and encouraged you to ftudy man in relation to other animals and things and glancing at the wondrous chain of univerfal exiftence, have called your attention to fome of its links ; and this in order that you might view this cc goodly frame” in the light of a large and well regulated family, all fubfervient to each other in proper fubordination^—all contri¬ buting in their proper places to the perfection and happinefs of the whole. In contemplating the principle of animation through the innumera¬ ble fpecies of beaks, birds, flOies and infects, kill we reached the vegetable, we have been led on to enquire, whether thefe two tribes of orga¬ nized beings do not form (inftead of two di ft inch kingdoms) one immenfe family t Thus, without nerfectina; the doclrine of dif~ 2 Q O eafes, and their remedies, have we endeavoured to give you a more pleafmg pifture of man and his relations, than what mere medical lectures afford ; and I was glad of fuch an opportu¬ nity to combat certain prejudices : for when I rebelled how all the fciences commonly taught in Univerfities were linked together, I felt a repugnance to the idea of phyfic being infulated? and wifhed tofuggefl to you that the