Volume 2

An elementary system of physiology ... / By John Bostock.

  • Bostock, John, 1773-1846.
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An elementary system of physiology ... / By John Bostock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO ARTHUR AIKIN, ESQ. F.L.S.& GS., SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, &c. My Dear Sir, Tue first volume of this Treatise f had proposed to have inscribed to our much valued friend, Dr. Mar- cet, under whose inspection the work was commenced, and from whom I received many important sugges- tions, respecting both the plan and the mode of execution. His premature death prevented me from fulfilling my design. ‘To the present volume I beg leave to prefix your name. A friendship, which may be said to have been transmitted to us from our parents, which commenced in our childhood, and which has continued to the present’ period, without the slightest interruption, might alone be sufficient to justify my choice. But, independently of any private feelings of this description, I am anxious to embrace