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23 June 1810 B 7
Fallacies
1o
Ch.
Ch. General
6
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Kenelm Digby's
vicarious plaister
no fit precedent
Since the days of Sir Kenelm Digby, and the wonders
wrought by his sympathetic powder, it has never it may be doubted whether men
have never seriously maintained nor or so much as
made as if they believed that by medicine applied
to a quantity of blood in Cornwall the wounds of a patient stretched
upon a couch in Cumberland may be cured. nor is
16 7
Relief was not
thus administered
by the Good
Samaritan
Neither in Geometry nor Algebra is much skill
is not required to prove that by a suture applied to the a
wounds in the leg of Great A the a wound in the leg of Great
B is not closed: nor in Algebra to prove that when
the affliction of little a x has been extirpated with
all its roots the afflictions of little b y and little c z
remain still to be got rid of by some other the necessary steps
process exactly as if nothing had been done.
It may be asserted on the ground of the most unquestionable
authority that when the wounds cure of the unfortunate traveller
who had fallen among thieves were was undertaken by the
Good Samaritan it was to the wounds in the body of
the afflicted patient that the his oil and his wine were
applied and not to the hands of the holy pr Golden Prebendary
Prebendary of Durham
and the Canon of Christ
Church
and Holy courtly Canon I should have said the poor Priests and
harried Levite who had they had either of whom had
he happened to have had the a bottle that could hold it
would on condition of its being worth drinking have and one of
his servant at hand to carry it be the bearer of it been so ready to receive it.
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