Physical disquisitions: demonstrating the real causes of the blood's morbid rarefaction ... By John Tennent, M.D.
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Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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Cambridge University Library
N039440
London : printed for W. Payne: and sold by the booksellers in town and country, 1745. pp. 2,i-vi,2,1-22,25-120,plate ; 8°
The nature of regeneration opened and its absolute necessity, in order to salvation, demonstrated, in a sermon from John iii.3.By the Revd. Mr. John Tennent The second edition.
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The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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British Library
T105032
With a final leaf of advertisements.
London : printed for J. Oswald, 1741. 4,122,2p. ; 12°
Detection of a Conspiracy, to Suppress a General Good in Physic, and to Promote Error and Ignorance in That Important Science: Being the Singular Case ... a Trial at the Old Bailey for Bigamy
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Excerpt from Detection of a Conspiracy, to Suppress a General Good in Physic, and to Promote Error and Ignorance in That Important Science: Being the Singular Case of John Tennant, M.D., Which Was Brought Against Him, Maliciously, a Trial at the Old Bailey for Bigamy
But this Dawn of my Affairs, like a deceitu ful Morning Geam, (0011 began to lour and threaten a Storm. I found the Phyficians grew every Dry cooler in my Affair, flufting me like a School boy from one to another, which was the only way they had left them to {hove me out altogether: For after {0 many Marks of their pub1ic E/leem and Regard, and (0 many Promi¢ (es of their Friendihp and Influence, it mull: havehetzayed their Ignorance, and expofed thein moral Character to the honeli World, had they deferred me all at once. When I Went to the great Men found them dancing to the fame Tune,_ and myfelt like a Dog in a Dancing. School tofs'd about and bandied like a Tennis I was now quite med and galled with riding the Great her/e, and de termin'd to give 1t up before my arter was quite eitpired.
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A Supplement to Physical Enquiries, Lately Published: In a Letter to the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq. (Classic Reprint)
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Evils, the World feems to be under an Igm'; Fatuus 5therefore the Terms Error and Mg. Apprebenfion, cannot be applied in that Cafe But I {hall wave expatiating on fuch a dif mal appearance of Things, and proceed to obferve upon the Inconfifiency of the Rhye ficians, with refpec't to thofe Things that am perfuaded, Sir, you. Will think to be their firiét Duty.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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Library of Congress
W039029
New York : Williamsburg, printed: New-York: re-printed and sold by James Parker, at the new printing-office in Hanover-Square, 1742. 40p. ; 8°
He was born in England circa 1700. He appeared first in the colony of Virginia about 1725. A son, John Tennent, living in Caroline County, Va. , unsuccessfully petitioned the Virginia Assembly in 1760 for assistance in securing a medical education as a recognition of his father's medical contributions and later served as a surgeon in the Continental Army. The elder Tennent appears to have settled first in Spotsylvania County. He acquired property in Fredericksburg and in Prince William County as well. By 1735 he was in Williamsburg.
Career
In Williamsburg in 1736 William Parks published Tennent's Essay on the Pleurisy. This little publication contained the author's experience in the therapeutic use of rattlesnake-root and gained for him widespread notoriety. He learned of the plant from "a Nation of Indians, called the Senekkas, " and reasoning "that this Root must be of general Use in Coagulations and Viscidities of the Blood" (a theory he adopted in the treatment of pleurisy and 'peripneumony' (he so employed it; "my Success was so great, " he claimed, "that I did not lose above four or five Patients in an Hundred, tho' other Practitioners lost two Thirds".
In 1737 he returned to London, made himself known to the leading physicians of the town and did his best to popularize the use of his rattlesnake-root. The next year he was back in Virginia, where a controversy had been raging in the Virginia Gazette over his plan of treatment. Although the House of Burgesses paid him at this time for having made public his discovery, he was not satisfied with his reception. "Meeting with Ingratitude from the Colony where I resided, " he wrote, "I came over to settle in London in the Year 1739".
The Singwar Case of John Tennent, published by him in London in 1743, is a defense of questionable conduct. It reveals a man "with hopes of making one Day a Figure in the Medical World, " chagrined over the fact that a large portion of the medical profession in Virginia and Great Britain refused to recognize the virtues of his discovery. He ended by fraternizing with the notorious quack Joshua Ward, stooped to the "foolish step in having kept one Mrs. Carey under the name of Mrs. Tennent, " and was finally brought to trial at the Old Bailey for bigamy. From this predicament he was rescued by no less a person than Sir Hans Sloane. In a letter of thanks written in April 1740, Tennent intimated his intention of going to Jamaica, but nothing is known of his later years.
Singular Case of John Tennent, M. D. , and A Brief Account of the Case of John Tennent, M. D. , he published anonymously Every Man His Own Doctor, purporting to offer "a Plain and Easy Means for Persons to cure themselves" by medicines grown chiefly in America; A Reprieve from Death (London, 1741), containing objections to the use of vinegar and other acids on board His Majesty's ships in the treatment of epidemic fevers of the West Indies; An Epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, Concerning the Epidemical Diseases of Virginia, Particularly, a Pleurisy, and Peripneumony (Edinburgh, 1738), elaborating a fantastic theory of disease and expanding the therapeutic uses of snake-root for gout, rheumatism, dropsy, and many nervous disorders; Physical Enquiries (1742), discussing the constitutional effects of change of climate and giving his views concerning the irregular practice of medicine; and, finally, Physical Disquisitions (London, 1745).
Achievements
He is famous as a physician, who wrote books in this field.
