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Excerpt from Observations on Some of the Parts of Surgical Practice: To Which Is Prefixed an Inquiry Into the Claims That Surgery May Be Supposed to Have for Being Classed as a Science
In centralising those glimmerings which are emitted from men's minds, when they speak of science, we discover that they evidently calculate upon some intellectual elaboration for educing its principles; and in this way allusion is made to the abstract sciences, as indicating some intel lectual processes, -independent of, or abstracted from matter, and not that intelligence of it, derived merely from the way it acts upon the senses. Surgeons.
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