Introductory lectures : exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Introductory lectures : exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parts, and the food for meditation it affords. When also in the prosecution of our anatomical enquiries, we as it were ana- lyze the body, or reduce it to its ele- mentary parts; when we find that every organ, and every portion of it, is com- posed of a few and simple vessels, a few and simple fibres; that by these it is originally formed, kept in constant repair, endowed with animation, sensation, and motion ; we become lost in astonishment that such important ends can be effected by apparently such simple means. On reflecting how I might best accomplish the duty which devolves to me, of giving anatomical lectures in a place by no means suited to anatomical demonstra- tions, I thought I could not do bet- ter than speak of the structure and