A dissertation on the sensible and irritable parts of animals / Translated from the Latin. With a preface by M. Tissot.

  • Albrecht von Haller
Date:
1755
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Credit: A dissertation on the sensible and irritable parts of animals / Translated from the Latin. With a preface by M. Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) je£i: which no body has examined before, we exped to meet with fomething new; but in an age like the prefent, and' upon a fubjedl fo much fearchcd into as the human body, we do not flatter ourfelves with difcovering eflen- tial properties; all that we can naturally hope for, is only to pufh farther thofe difcoveries already made, which require no more than dexterity and patience to bring them to perfec¬ tion. Wherefore to difcover fuch a property as Irritability, and to examine it after it is dif¬ cover ed, requires a penetrating accurate geni¬ us, a lively fenfe of the want of fuch a dif- covery, and a lagacity of fmclling it out before-^ hand lo to fpeak. Such a perfon ought to know peife(5lly all that was known before, and repre- fent it to himfelf in the ftrongefl: light, in or¬ der to be convinced that he does not fee falfe- ly, or obferve what others have taken notice of before, but have not judged worthy of their confideration. He ought to have a par¬ ticular turn to difcovering the truth, and a ftrong propenfity to lay hold of it, not to fuffer this firfl glimpie to efcape him, which to com¬ mon eyes would appear only an ignis fatuus not worth attending to, but fliines like a bright meteor to thofe whom nature has deftined to obferve it; which method of difcovering is in a manner to create. But may Dr. Haller A3 be
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