An inaugural thesis, on sensation & motion : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Andrews ..., the Trusttes and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of April, 1806 : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Hart, of Orange, North-Carolina.

  • Hart, John, -1837.
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1806
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Credit: An inaugural thesis, on sensation & motion : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Andrews ..., the Trusttes and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of April, 1806 : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Hart, of Orange, North-Carolina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESSAY SENSATION, AND MOTION W HEN I reflect on the obscurity of the subject on which I am now about to enter ; the critic world, to whose inspection it is to be subjected; and my own incapability of doing justice to it, I am on the very verge of recoiling from the task; and abandoning the pursuit, which alone can place me on an equality with the medical world: But in conformity to the laws of the institution, from which I have obtained my medical education, which make it indispensably necessary that I should become an Author, I attempt it; not without being conscious of the errors of judgment to which I, with every other person, am liable. The subject which I have chosen for my thesis has, in all ages, been discussed by medical men. Old opinions have been laid aside ; and those that displaced them embraced with great eagerness:—Yet they have left us, like a blind man searching for a feather, on a windy day. Clouds of ignorance still inter- cept our view ; and we are lured from the pleasing paths of truth, by the art of reasoning, into the mazes of subtle inge- nuity.