01.11.2013 | Paradigm Shifts in Perspective
Bringing the Bacon Home
Erschienen in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences | Ausgabe 11/2013
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…There is therefore much ground for hoping that there are still laid up in the womb of nature many secrets of excellent use, having no affinity or parallelism with anything that is now known, but lying entirely out of the beat of the imagination, which have not yet been found out. They too no doubt will some time or other in the course and revolution of many ages come to light of themselves, just as the others did, only by the method of which we are now treating they can be speedily and suddenly and simultaneously presented and anticipated.But we have also discoveries to show of another kind, which prove that novel inventions may be lying at our very feet, and yet mankind may step over without seeing them [1].