Remarks on Mr. John Bell's Anatomy of the heart and arteries / By Jonathan Dawplucker, Esq. [pseud. for J. Barclay].

  • Barclay, John, 1758-1826.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Remarks on Mr. John Bell's Anatomy of the heart and arteries / By Jonathan Dawplucker, Esq. [pseud. for J. Barclay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wa ee But -moft probably elegance was not our author’s aim; and if he was only anxious to appear perfpicuous, he has in fome meafure fucceeded: but by no means completely ; for the language is too vague, and the fentences too confufed, to bearexamination Many paf- fages haye fcarcely any meaning atall. Some paflages flatly contradict others; and even blunders in grammar, as the following paflages will fhow,.are not uncommon. ‘¢In both. ventricles this is very remarkable, that ‘¢ towards the opening of the auricle 2 is very mg- “ged.” (P. 18.)—** The little horns or tags becomes « fo tenfe.”? (P..19.)—‘* They prevent the valve. be- ‘‘ ing forced.” (P. 24.)-—-‘* To prevent it gravitating upon that which is rifing from the liver.’”’ (P, 31-) ‘“‘ How terrible dangerous it was to openvan artery.” (P. 61.)—‘* The Harveian doctrine had no fooner ‘‘ breathed life into the new philofophy of the hu- ‘‘ man body, or phyficians begun to think.of the ‘ heart.”? (P..67.)—‘* Nor can I believe that there ‘is any difference among all the three.” (P. 98.) ‘If oil, mucilage, water, or any other fluid, be ¢¢ (ubflituted to the ferum.” (P. 99.)—‘‘ Many things ¢* are to be taken in the calculation.” (P..125.)— ‘ The fundtion of the placenta actually is eguiva- ‘‘ Jent with the fun@ion of the: lungs.” (P. 186.)— ‘« Something equivalent with the function of the lungs.” (P. 188.) The following paflages, and many more might have been felected, have either no meaning at all, or a ve- ry abfurd one. ‘* The difcovery of the circulation of the blood has been always xegarded as one of the grandeft in | {cience ;