An essay on burns, principally upon those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air ( or hydrogen gas).

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832.
Date:
[1797]
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Credit: An essay on burns, principally upon those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air ( or hydrogen gas). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESSAY ON BURNS, rjUNCIPALLT UPON THOSE ' WHICH HAPPPEN TO WORKMEN IN MINES FROM THE ExploJ'wns of Inflammable Air, (or Hydrogen Gas. J CONTAINING A VIEW OF THE OPINIONS OF AN TIE NT AND MODERN AUTHORS UPON THE SUBJECT OF BURNS; AND A VARIETY OF CASES CONDUCTED UPON DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES: FROM WHICH AN' ATTEMPT IS MADE TO RESCUE THIS PART OF THE HEALING ART FROM EMPIRICISM, AND TO REDUCE IT TO THE LAWS OF THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. —- By EDWARD KENTISH, Surgeon. ** The affignmcnt of a multiplicity of caufes, to account for particular • “ phenomena, always betokens a backward Rate 'of knowledge. The bufinefs ot fcicnce is to generalife fads, to clafs phenomena under cli it in cl heads, and ihew their dependence upon a common principle * or cauL- In die progrefs of human reafon, polytheifm has yielded to “ the exiitcnce of one God; the intricate and feemingly oppofite phe- nomena of matter and motion have been referred to one general law of gravitation; the puzzling and divcriiiied appearances of eledri- city have been reduced to a few plain rules: the multitude of fads <( concerning light and colours have been in like manner arranged into a lcientilic form; and both the rainbow and the telescope bear witneis to thg iimplicity of optics.” S. L. Mitchell, M. D. LO.NDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW; W. CREECH-, EDINBURGH; J, TODD, YORK ; AND J, BELL, NEWCASTLE. ' U1JJ P RICH gj. (jd%