A new physical system of astronomy : an attempt to explain the operations of the powers which impel the planets and comets to perform eliptical revolutions round the sun, and revolve on their own axis : in which, the physical system of Sir Isaac Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted ; to which is annexed, a physiological treatise ; in which the first stage of animation is considered, and the means shewn, by which circulation is performed in the first rudiments of the incipient animal, before the vessels are completely organized, &c. ; together with an explanation of the general laws, by which the animal economy is governed ; and particularly, the mode whereby the operations of the vis medicatrix naturae, or the unassisted powers of nature, are exerted to obviate and cure disease ; also, successful methods of curing cancerous ulcers, the quartan ague, putrid fevers, stopping mortifications, and extracting frost, so as to leave the frozen member perfectly well / by Joseph Young, M.D. of New-York.

  • Young, Joseph, 1733-1814.
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: A new physical system of astronomy : an attempt to explain the operations of the powers which impel the planets and comets to perform eliptical revolutions round the sun, and revolve on their own axis : in which, the physical system of Sir Isaac Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted ; to which is annexed, a physiological treatise ; in which the first stage of animation is considered, and the means shewn, by which circulation is performed in the first rudiments of the incipient animal, before the vessels are completely organized, &c. ; together with an explanation of the general laws, by which the animal economy is governed ; and particularly, the mode whereby the operations of the vis medicatrix naturae, or the unassisted powers of nature, are exerted to obviate and cure disease ; also, successful methods of curing cancerous ulcers, the quartan ague, putrid fevers, stopping mortifications, and extracting frost, so as to leave the frozen member perfectly well / by Joseph Young, M.D. of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in all cases the instruments in producing motion ; as there is no case, in which solids generate or continue motion, independent of the impulse or energy of fluids.—And were it not for this admirable mode of collecting such immense quantities of condensed la- tent igneous matter, rendered almost infinitely sub- tile, active and penetrating by heat, and diffusing it through space, to be recompounded, condensed and returned to the sun, in constant succession, all mo- tion would soon be lost, and the planetary orbs would cease to revolve. But as I wish to render my theory as perspicuous as I possibly can, I have drawn a solar equator over the sun's disk, (as in Fig. IX.) and the tropic's paral- lel to it, supposed at 23-j degrees distant; and the ecliptic from A to B, intersecting the solar equator, at the middle or vertical point. I have then suppo- sed the earth laying entirely at rest, at the tropic of Capricorn on the 21st day of June, with its atmos- phere perfectly still and inactive, until the rays of the sun, by their energy and influence, began to heat, rarify, agitate and render it actively repulsive, when, by a Jaw already mentioned, to wit, that the strongest atmosphere will always repel the weakest to the op- posite side of the body to which it belongs, where that of the earth, would form a long dark cone or tail, like that represented in the Fig. II. which would re-act, with a force proportioned to its quan- tity of matter, and degree of its excitement, and when a sufficient quantity of the earth's atmosphere had been excited and propelled to the opposite side, to overcome its vis inertia, the earth would begin to move