An essay on the theory and practice of medical electricity / by Tiberius Cavallo.

  • Cavallo Tiberius, 1749-1809.
Date:
1781
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the theory and practice of medical electricity / by Tiberius Cavallo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    terefting to the human fpecies, may palliate, if not juflify, the imperfections of the per- formance, which might, perhaps, have been lefs excufable in other fubjects. To exhibit a concife view of afcertained facts, to feparate them from fuppofitions and hypothefes, and to point out the ways of inveftigating the farther ufe of factitious airs, has been the Author’s principal aim in the compilation of the prefent Effay. In the courfe of his inquiries, he has frequently found caufe to admire the in- genuity, the caution, and the perfeverance of feveral gentlemen, who either have ad- miniftered the aerial fluids, or have other- wife exerted themfelves in the promotion of their ufe. Yet he has taken particular care to avoid paying them any compliments, or even making frequent ufe of their names, left his defire of promoting the fubjecfl; fhould be apparently converted into an en- deavour of promoting the interefl: of certain pracflitioners. The firftVour chapters contain fuch fac^ls as may be of theoretical ufe in the applica- tions