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
Chapters 1 and 2 only
English Short Title Catalog, N19956
Reproduction of original from National Library of Medicine
Keywords: Blood -- Circulation -- Early works to 1800; Respiration -- Early works to 1800