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Medical Extracts 5 volumes 1799-1800

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Title: The Philosophy of Medicine: Or, Medical Extracts on the Nature of Health and Disease, Including the Laws of the Animal Oeconomy, and the Doctrines of Pneumatic Medicine.
Author: [Thornton, Robert John]
Description: 5 volumes. xxviii, 548; xxiv, 612; xxiii, 648; xv, 518; xii, 552, [16], 4 ad, [1] pp. 35 engraved plates, several printed in one or two colors or hand-colored. (8vo) 8¼x5, period full tree-calf, spines gilt, black leather lettering pieces, all edges marbled. Fourth Edition."In the first volume, is displayed the progress of medicine and chemistry; and the relationship we stand in to the air we breathe. The second volume discloses our relationship to light, heat, food, exercise, and all the variety of mental emotion...The third volume embraces the consideration of indirect stimuli, as impure air, darkness, cold, hunger, rest, and the different sedative passions of the mind, which are no otherways stimuli than as they relate to the Second Law "that an accumulation of irritability ensues from a deficiency of direct stimuli"; and this volume embraces the diseases of asthenia, or weakness. The fourth volume is employed in the consideration of the Third Law, "that the excessive action of stimuli exhausts the irritable principle in the blood;" and here the action of different poisons is fully considered, with the methodus medendi, or antidote. The fifth volume is a continuation of the same subject, shewing more particularly the rise and progress of Pneumatic Medicine". (from the author's dedication to Sir Joseph Banks)
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: T. Cox, et al
Date Published: 1799-1800