An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

... The spacious earth, And all the teeming regions of the world, Hold not an object to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting, or so fair, As man to man. AKENSIDE. Actuated by the finest feelings of gratitude, I embrace with peculiar pleasure this opportunity of acknowledging and making, in some degree, public, my many obligations to you, who, with parental care, directed the gradual unfoldings of my mind through the morning of youth, and kindly afforded those means of improvement, calculated to raise industry to eminence, and crown it with success. To the zealous and able friends of science, JNO. B. DAVIDGE, A. M. M. D. and JAMES COCKE, M. D. Joint Professors of Anatomy, Surgery, &c. In the College of Medicine of Maryland; These pages are inscribed as a Sincere testimony of Respect and esteem, By the AUTHOR. The time allotted, in general, for the production of inaugural essays, and the peculiar circumstances under which I have to write, preclude the hope of my advancing the science of medicine; I am therefore chiefly anxious not to embarrass its progress by hasty conclusions or fanciful chimeras. The opinions I have thought proper to bring forward are advanced with as much perspicuity and order as my application to other engagements would permit; and although they are founded, I trust, on manifest facts or inductions from established propositions, still I must submit them with diffidence: and should the ground, I have taken, prove untenable, I have to regret that my opportunities have not placed me on a more advantageous stand. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67007
Author: Curtis, Henry
Release Date: Dec 25, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Benjamin Edes
Publication Date: 1812
Publisher Country: United States