An essay concerning the infinite wisdom of God, manifested in the contrivance and structure of the skin of human bodies / By a lover of physick and surgery.

  • Lover of physick and surgery.
Date:
1724
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Credit: An essay concerning the infinite wisdom of God, manifested in the contrivance and structure of the skin of human bodies / By a lover of physick and surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Corollary I. From thefe Things we gather, that the Number of Veflels is the greateft in a Foetus, that this Number gradually decreafes as we advance in Years, and that by this Decreafe Weaknefs is remov’d, the Strength of Youth takes its Place, and the Body receives an En- creafe both of Quantity and Solidity. Corollary II. In Childhood and Beginning of Youth, the Fluids greatly exceed the Solids, but as we grow up to Manhood and Old Age, this Excefs conftantly and gradually decreafes, and the So¬ lids gain the Afcendant both in Number and Strength 5 from hence, if Life be continu'd long enough, will enfue an excefiive Drynefs or Defed of Fluids, and at laft Death it felf. Corollary III. Hence we may alfo colled, that the Su¬ preme and infinitely Wife Manager of the Univerfe, hath fo conftituted Things in the Human Body, that mod contrary Effeds are produced by one and the fame Caufe, and that That which at one time is the Occafion I 2 of