[150] Ibid. La Mettrie, T. vii. p. 214.
[151] De Medicina, Lib. iv. cap. 21.
[152] Medicus, sive de methodo medendi, L. i. c. 22.
[153] Praxis medica, L. iii. Part. ix. Sect. 2. c. 4.
[154] De morb. nervor. p. 717. This Work, gathered from his Lessons, from 1730 to 1745, and in that posterior by some years to the Lessons collected by M. de Haller, proves that Boerhaave had changed his opinion as to the possibility of a purely seminal gonorrhœa; and it is well known, that that great man was always ready to renounce his former ideas to adopt new ones, the instant he was convinced of their being the justest.
[155] G. L. Koempf De morbis ex atrophia, Basle, 1756.
[156] Historia plantarum, &c. p. 51.
[157] L. iv. c. 8.
[158] P. 231.
[159] Oper. Omn. p. 544.