sodder

… I juſtly formed this Concluſion to my ſelf; That whatever Philoſopher or Projector can find out an Art to ſodder and patch up the Flaws and Imperfections of Nature, will deſerve much better of Mankind, and teach us a more uſeful Science, than that ſo much in preſent eſteem, of widening and expoſing them (like him who held Anatomy to be the ultimate End of Phyſick.)