Philosophical inquiries into the laws of animal life In six chapters. By Hugh Smith, M. D. Of Hatton-Street. With a View to shew the Probability of Air being the first Cause of Motion in Animal Life; to point out the Mechanical Causes that concur in producing the Circulation of the Blood; and to explain the Laws of Respiration. These Inquiries are supported by Experiments, and founded on the Principles delivered in a Course of Philosophical Lectures, in the Beginning of the Year 1778. The Principles are set forth in the Author's Syllabus - Smith, Hugh 1736?-1789 (printed for L. Davis , Holborn ; J. Robson , New Bond-Street ; J. Dodsley , Pall-Mall ; T. Cadell , Strand ; G. Kearsly , Fleet-Street ; G. Robinson and T. Evans , Paternoster-Row ; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal-Exchange, 1780)
At bottom of title page: The work is printed in Quarto for the Convenience of those who chuse to have it bound with the Syllabus. The Second Chapter will be published the Beginning of April