An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave, doctor of philosophy and medicine; professor of the theory, and practice of physic ... in the university of Leyden ... / By Wm. Burton, M.D. In two parts. With an appendix. [Anon].

  • Burton, William.
Date:
1746
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Credit: An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave, doctor of philosophy and medicine; professor of the theory, and practice of physic ... in the university of Leyden ... / By Wm. Burton, M.D. In two parts. With an appendix. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of all religion; one of the pafiengers, who exerted himfelf moft, oppofed to this phi- lofopher’s pretended mathematical demon- ftrations only the loud invedtivcs of a blind zeal; whereupon Boerhaave, who was always an enemy to triflers, could no lon¬ ger refrain from aficing him calmly,whether he had ever infpeded the works of the au¬ thor he decryed ; the clamorous orator was at once ftruck dumb, and fired with lilent refentment; another, who had not yet interpofed, finding with regret the con- troverfy droptupon thisqueftion, whifpered the perfon next him to learn Boerhaave’s name, takes it down in his pocket book, and as foon as arrived at Leyden made Iris bufinefs to propagate the malicious falfe- hood every where, that Boerhaave was become a Spinofift. What an infiance this of the violent propenfity of mankind to detradlion ? how monftrous their credulity who countenanced this calumny againfi the very man, who had fo lately in his philo- fophkal difputation entirely confuted Spi- NOSA, with the whole fyfiem of atheifm ? Yet fo far was this or any other confidera- tion