Thomas Garnett

Thomas Garnett
Thomas Garnett (1766–1802) was a British physician, natural philosopher, and writer known for his contributions to medicine and science. He studied under renowned chemist Joseph Black and later became a professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Garnett authored the book "Popular Lectures on Zoonomia," based on the works of Erasmus Darwin, and contributed to medical literature with works such as "An Essay on the Effects of External and Internal Use of Cold." Despite his promising career, he died young at 36 due to typhus fever.

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. DR. GARNETT was born at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, on the 21st of April, 1766. During the first fifteen years of his life, he remained with his parents, and was instructed by them in the precepts of the established church of England, from which he drew that scheme of virtue, by which every action of his future life was to be governed. The only... more...

FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE SALMON. In the following observations I intend to offer some remarks on the various migratory fish of the genus Salmo; and then some facts and opinions which tend to show the importance of some change in the laws which are now in force regarding them. We have first the Salmon; which, in the Ribble, varies in weight from five to thirty pounds. We never see the fish here... more...

A LECTURE, &c. THE greatest blessing we enjoy is health, without it, wealth, honors, and every other consideration, would be insipid, and even irksome; the preservation of this state therefore, naturally concerns us all. In this lecture, I shall not attempt to teach you to become your own physicians, for when the barriers of health are once broken down, and disease has established itself, it... more...