- Part I Unity of Matter and Unity of Sensations: The text of Prout's De Facultate Sentiendi, 1810 Ann. Sci. 1969 25 49 80 The present paper is an expansion of my ‘Some Unpublished Papers of William Prout relating to Matter Theory’, Actes de XI Congrès Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 1965, Warsaw, 1968, vol. iv, pp. 67–70.
- Harris , J. 1775 . Philosophical Arrangements 63 – 63 . London Lord Malmesbury, The Works of James Harris, Esq., 2 vols., London, 1801, vol. ii, p. 38.
- Prout , W. 1810 . De Facultate Sentiendi 3 – 3 . Edinburgh MS. See Part I of this paper, and Harris, op. cit., p. 72, note a; Works, vol. ii, p. 43.
- For these lectures see my biography of Prout Medical History 1965 9 103 104 I am grateful to the owner of these manuscripts, Lt. Col. P. E. H. Warner, for permission to cite from them. In the present paper I am concerned only with Prout's first lecture. But from surviving notes it appears that his subsequent lectures were devoted to blood; ‘of substances constituting a part of the body itself & formed from the blood without any visible apparatus or gland’ (bone, ligaments, etc.); ‘of substances chiefly excrementous & separated without any visible apparatus or gland’ (sweat, lymph, etc.); ‘of substances formed by visible apparatuses or glands’ (bile, urine, etc.); digestion; animal heat, putrifaction; and the art of organic analysis.
- 1815 . Ann. Phil. , 6 : 330 – 330 .
- Prout did not retain this materialistic view in later writings, e.g. Annals of Medicine Surgery 1816 1 10 26 133–157, 277–289
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