"I have resolved to confine my studies and my pen to medical subjects only. For the talents which God has not given me…"

"With respect to the cohesion and of liquids, I have had the good fortune to anticipate Mr. Laplace in his late resear…"

"I met with an accident about five weeks ago in London, which has prevented my walking ever since, and I think I broke…"

"This statement appears to us to be conclusive with respect to the insufficiency of the undulatory theory, in its pres…"

"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."

"The well known elevation of the pitch of wind instruments, in the course of playing, sometimes amounting to half a no…"

"It may hereafter be considered how far the excellent experiments of Count Rumford, which tend very greatly to weaken …"

"It is surprising that so great a mathematician as Dr. Smith could have entertained for a moment, an idea that the vib…"

"The fundamental doctrines of motion have [herein]... been more immediately referred to axioms simply mathematical tha…"

"A permanent alteration of form limits the strength of materials with regard to practical purposes, almost as much as …"