This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Date:
[1797?]
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Credit: This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANCTIONS. As authors in general “ do not hide their candle under a meafure,” I have fol¬ lowed the example with fome hehtation ; but confefs, while I bring forward commendations of my work, my own weaknefs is extreme : for the more I pry into the ways of the Creator, the more I am humbled, and the lefs of vanity, truly, I poffefs. I hope the candid reader will not then impute any oftentatious motive to my producing fuch refpedlable teftimony. If he be thereby led to purchafe this work, I beg leave to folicit him “ to judge for himfelf/’ Magna ejl ojeriiathpoientia, eiprevalebit, I. Thus have we given a brief analyfis of the Medical Extracts, which will be found of the higheft ufe to all thofe, who are defirous of pre- ferving, or regaining, the invaluable bleffing of health. It is the befl: work on the fubjedt in any language ; it is the produ6tion of a mind, learned, comprehenfive, candid, open to, and defirous of^ information; cautious in invefligation, yet refolute to embrace the truth j a friend to mankind, ar¬ dent in his hopes, as in his efforts, for increafing the {lores of knowledge; and particularly in- terefled in the general adoption, and fuccefs, of fneumatic medicine \ of the advantages of which the author (for he has drawn from the fadls of others his own conclufions, and incorporated his own obfervations) entertains almofl unbounded expedlation^;, fhewing evidently that temperam.ent which ufually accompanies genius. Englijh Review.