A lecture introductory to a course of popular instruction on the constitution and management of the human body / by Thomas Beddoes.

Date:
1797
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    A Praditioner in surgery accidentally informed me many months ago, that he tuas desirous ofglvmg a course of anatomical ledures in Bristol. To furnish indi- ’viduals ivith so much knoivledge of themsel-ves as should enable them to guard against habitual sicMness, and a variety of serious disorders, had been long an objed tf contemplation ’with me. I therefore proposed that the course should be modelled according to this idea. I remarked, that a distind exhibition of the larger lines of anatomy and physiology ivould be also the mode of mstrudion best adapted to young students in medicine; much observation ofledures having convinced me that extreme minute- ness is only perplexing to beginners. This, joined to some other considerations, prevailed. The person in i^uestion has devoted ■much of his spare time to the providing of proper preparations, and he has associated in the undertaking a fellow praditioner, who possesses a valuable anatomical colledion. For my own part, I shall contribute my utmost assistance to the design, in ’Whatever way that assistance shall, upon refledion, appear most likely to he ffedual. The purpose of the course will be to exhibit the strudure of the human body, in a manner neither superficial nor tedious, to explain the fundions of the parts as far lu they have hitherto been investigated, to illustrate by specimens the principal deviations of these parts from their healthy conformation, and to intersperse such rejledions as may he useful in physical education, and ihe whole condud of life. CLIFTON, Odober 8, 1797. THOMAS BEDDOES.