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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    Ir is also known, that if a globe be swiftly whirled on an axis, and water poured on it, the water will collect and fly ofF at the equator of the globe, and not at or near the poles.—Those conversant in pyrotechny, are well acquainted with the power of fire to turn a globe, or fire-wheel, which is effected by the stream of fire acting against the elastic spring of the air, in the same manner that a sky-rocket is impelled to move in a contrary direction to that in which the fire issues : the electrical horse-race, is produced by the same means. These instances arc sufficient to prove, that fire is a powerful instrument in producing motion. And whoever has inhabited this city but one year, which is but 41 degrees from the equator, will need but few arguments to convince him, that it is warmer near the equator than the poles of the sun. And it is a well known fact, that when the air is greatly ra- refied by heat, it will ascend; and the air that is colder and more dense, will flow into the space that had been occupied by that which had ascended. If, therefore, the repulsive fluid, in the regions north and south of the poles of the sun, be colder, and, consequently, more condensed than the fluid in his internal cavity, then it is demonstrably evident, that it will flow in at his poles, as fast as that which is heated and emitted in oceans of light is sent off from his circumference, to fill the regions of space, to actuate and govern the solid globes, and prevent the congelation of every thing which we call fluid, even the air itself. Thus