Observations on morbid poisons, chronic and acute : the first comprehending syphilis, yaws, sivvens, elephantiasis, and the anomala confounded with them. The second the acute contagions, particularly the variolous & vaccine / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1807
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    different animals suited to the great variety of substances they have to work upon, and then draws the conclusion, or leaves his reader to do so ; that not only the mouths of the absorbents are calculated to absorb fluids; not only do they carry away solids; but each vessel, according to the hardness and toughness of the material upon which it has to operate, has a mouth adapted to the work. Here we do not see the genius of Hunter, but a poverty of imagina- tion.* Let us contrast this with the modesty of one, who, by addi- tional experiments, has carried the enquiry further than Mr. Hunter. Mr. Gibson, in his valuable paperf on the Sutures in the Skull, shows the use of them in forming various points from which that important covering may be gradually enlarged from the extremities of each individual bone. He proves from Mr. Hunter's experi- ments, and from his own observations, the manner in which the cylindrical bones are elongated, the probability that the same takes place in the flat bones, and that such a process would be inade- quate to the increased size of the brain, if the skull were not divided horizontally during its growth into distinct parts. But whilst he gives Mr. Hunter full credit for his discovery, it is pleasing to see how entirely he waives the merit of one improvement he him- self has made in it: viz. that this elongation of the cylindrical bone is only to the point of contact with the epiphysis, which must of course have of an oeconomy of its own, regulating its growth, formation, and future induration. * If on this and on other occasions, a long transcript should be objected to, as the means of making up a book, the author's only apology is, that he does not think himself jus- tified in objecting to any opinion without producing the words, and if necessary, the whole paragraph, with which they are connected. f Memoirs of the Manchester Society. e