An address to the public, on a subject of the utmost importance to health : highly necessary to be read by all those who are, or may be afflicted with a certain disease. To which is subjoined, An essay on the heat of the blood, and the motions of animals and vegetables / By J. Elliot.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: An address to the public, on a subject of the utmost importance to health : highly necessary to be read by all those who are, or may be afflicted with a certain disease. To which is subjoined, An essay on the heat of the blood, and the motions of animals and vegetables / By J. Elliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an attempt of this kind will be more ufeful than even a differtation on the difeafe itfelf; lince thofe who are incapable of judging of the merits of a profeffional work, ' - * may yet be made fenfible of the dangerous confequnces of indif- criminate quackery. I do not pretend even to offer any thing new ; for the fubjedl has frequent¬ ly been treated by others, in a more ample manner than I have either done, or defigned, which probably is the reafon that their well intended labours have never been generally known. It ap¬ peared to me that a very fhort addrefs, urged in an earned: man¬ ner, fetting the matter in a ftrong light,