A popular view of the structure and economy of the human body : interspersed with reflections, moral, practical, and miscellaneous; including modern discoveries.... To which is annexed, an explanation of difficult terms / By John Feltham.

  • Feltham, John.
Date:
1803
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Credit: A popular view of the structure and economy of the human body : interspersed with reflections, moral, practical, and miscellaneous; including modern discoveries.... To which is annexed, an explanation of difficult terms / By John Feltham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uD - derns are, with reason, thought to claim the palm—the ancients, for any thing that now ap- pears, could boast of nothing equal to us in'these respects. | : : | We perceive astronomy, in these latter times, unfolded and improved; and improving in its turn, geography and navigation. We may ob- ‘serve mechanics, multiplying the efforts of man, and reducing all nature, as it were, to submission. Machines disengaging us from toil; and water and fire itself compelled to’ serve as drudges, in -the prosecution of our labours. ‘The telescope -brings distant objects nearer to view, and unfolds ‘to us planets unknown to our ancestors. The microscope opens a new province within her em- pire, and becomes as it were the bond which unites us to an immense portion of the creation. Anatomy hath withdrawn the veil from the face of humanity ; it hath discovered an innu- ‘merable quantity of machines, all silently co- ~~ operating to celebrate the glory of the Artist. This science, at once terrible and useful, hath ees A ee a a St No pe a EN Sa SERENE _ enmscribed Cavities, No. I, 8vo. was published by order of the subscribers, 1801, and which has been followed by many valu * able works on this important branch of knowledge, by Dr. Blaine, , Mr. White, and others, , : : B 5 taught