Excerpt from First Lines of the Practice of Physic, Vol. 1 of 2 Whether the practice of Physic should admit of reasoning, or be entirely rested upon experience, has long been, and may still be, a matter of dispute. I shall not, however, at present, enter upon the discussion of this; because I can venture to assert, that, at almost all times, the practice has been, and still is, with every person, founded more or less, upon certain princi ples established by reasoning; and therefore, in attempting to offer some view of the present state of Physic, I must give an account of those systems of the principles of science which have lately prevailed, or may be supposed still to prevail in europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.