Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer : containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
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Credit: Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer : containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fyilogifxn which never flops to obviate objeaions, and every induction which would not apply to the intermediate, as well as the principal axiom, we find him attentive only to facts, their feries and order, and forming no conclufions but what could be well afcertained. By a dole obfervation of the flate and fituation of the teftis in every age of the Jaclui, he diicovered the time which led to the mode in which the tefticle defcended, not only without the accidental aid of weight, poflure, or temper, but without the danger of the intefline defcending with it. In a word, he traced nature throughout every part of the procefs, and mowed (he had as regularly provided for this change, and as much by law& f uited to the actions to be produced, as fhe docs for the changes from the foetal to the ftatc of refpiration, from childhood to puberty, from the virgin to the impregnated uterus. When the'e laws were traced, it was eafy to fee the confequences that mult follow the interruption of any of them; and by thefe means to account for the orifice re- maining open, and the defcent of the inteftine, which fometimes, though rarely occurs. But it is hardly credible how much the original error in which Haller entangled himfelf, warped all his future reafoning on this fubject.* Not * Errore* radicales 2c in prima digeftione mentis; ab cx- ccllentia funftionuru & rernediorum iccjuentium non curan- tur. Nov. Org. Aph. £0. contented