Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798
Francis Penrose English surgeon and medical writer
VIAF ID: 10281640 ( Personal )
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Works
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A dissertation on the inflammatory, gangrenous, and putrid sore throat : Also on the putrid fever, together with their diagnosticks and method of cure. By F. Penrose, surgeon. | |
An essay on magnetism: or an endeavour to explain the various properties and effects of the load-stone: together with the causes of the same. By Francis Penrose, Surgeon, at Bicester, Oxfordshire. | |
Essays, physiological and practical; founded on the modern chemistry of Lavoisier, Fourcroy, etc. etc. etc. With a view to the improvement of the practice of physic. By Francis Penrose, M.D. | |
Letters on philosophical subjects : particularly the creation, the deluge, vegetation, etc. The powers producing these operations are here shewn to be heat, cold, air and water. Since the edition of these letters printed at Plymouth, the late experiments in the new chymistry have confirmed the above theory. These Experiments prove, that Heat and Light, together with Oxygen or Cold, are the Powers which carry on both Animal and Vegetable Life: Light, Heat, Vital Air, and inflammable Gas, are thereby proved to be substances of the first class, and approach nearest to simplicity. | |
Letters, philosophical and astronomical : in which the following operations of nature and treated of and explained, in the most simple and natural Manner, According to Sir Isaac Newton's Opinions, (viz.) the creation; the deluge; Vegetation; the Make and Form of this terraqueous Globe;-Its Motions explained and accounted for. Together with the exact number of days, Years, and Lunations, since the creation. Proved by the New, Full Moons, Equinoxes, and Eclipses. To which is added, a solar and lunar diagram for A.D. 1786, In which the Place of the Sun, Earth, Moon and her Nodes, are pointed out every Day in the Year, and every Day of the Week. | |
A physical essay on the animal oeconomy. - | |
A treatise on electricity, 1752: |