Volume 1

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    Whilfl pliilofopliers and learned men clur cidate abftrufe fubjedls, they have rarely en-r larged the circle of ufeful arts, and particu^ larly thofe, applicable to domefllo and com- mon life, Franklin, who created a fclentific energy in the new hemlfphere, unknown before his time, happily united them. His countiyr man Count Rumford embraced the fame principles; and thofe ample views which liis great archetype fiiggetted, he explained, en- larged, and confirmed ; and, with a felicity of elucidation, rendered familiar to the artl- zah and mechanic ; and thus, whilfl he in- ftrudled philofophers in Science, he rendered the ufeful aits fubfervient to public benefit, and domeftic happinefs. To trace the im- provements and difcoverles, in which Arts and Sciences are indebted to him, is not niy de- fign ; nor would thefe pages fufficc to record them; they are too important, however, to efcape the applaufe of the Learned, whon-^ he has enlightened, or the gratitude of the Public^ whpnri he has Informed. Tlie humble