The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn.

  • Goodwyn, Edmund, 1756-1829.
Date:
1788
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/152
    xv of Analyjis, beginning with effects, and afcending to their particular caufes, and from particular caufes to more general ones, with the affiftance of Analogy and Induction, until I could proceed no farther. Then I affumed the laft conclufion as a general principle to explain the production of all the effedts in a defcending feries to the firft phenomena, where the analylis began; in this manner adding the Synthejis, and thus giving .to the refult all the evidence which the nature of the fubject would admit. To avoid the danger of being milled by the colouring of fancy or inaccurate obfer- vation, the experiments were repeated feve- ral times with great care and attention, and always in the prefence of fome judicious friends: but as the teftimony of the fenfes is not always fufficient, and the moft care¬ ful inquirer may fometimes err, I neither expedl.