Author: Martyn Paine

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-09

Total Pages: 716

ISBN-13: 9781334576065

Excerpt from Medical and Physiological Commentaries, Vol. 1 of 2 Hunter, he should not have contradicted it by a palpable negative and this, too, enforced with aview to correct a misapprehension that had existed, as to his doctrine of life. In endeavouring to substantiate our doctrines, we have preferred the facts of others to our own and, this is the more advantageous, as they have often had little or no reference to the conclusions we have derived from them, and especially so in the numerous instances in which we have employed them in Opposition to doctrines they were intended to sustain. In the humoral pathol ogy, particularly, we have resorted to the latter mode of demonstration, which must be allowed to be the most conclusive. In many of our quotations, we have substituted Italic for Roman letters; but, as we have frequently neglected to say so, we wish it, where the sense may be affected in our favour, to be considered as probably our own em phasis, having taken this liberty to save the necessity of comment. We have referred to an appendix on the advantages of learning to a physician but, having very far exceeded our intended limits, it has been omitted. We have endeavoured to notice all the typographical errors of any importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.