Occupation: Physician Birth: December 12, 1731 Death: April 18, 1802
I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is pe….
E canchis amnia. Everything from shells..
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slau….
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling..
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die..
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism..
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can….
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds a….
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them wi….
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leav….
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing….
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation..
A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment..
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first..
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quan….
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects buil….
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not o….
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and….
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From….
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or….
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the featu….