A dissertation on the general principles of anatomy and comparative physiology : as applied to the science of medicine / ... Translated for the author by Thomas Wilson.

  • Rucco, Julius, 1778-1852.
Date:
1818
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    J3 laws, to separate and decompose tliem is to de- prive animals of life....to be wanting in respect to nature, and to confound them blindly with the mineral mass. But, deductions made from the influence of chemistry upon dead animal matter, and from the knowledge of earths, salts, phosphorus, car- bon, hydrogen, azote, oxygen, sulphur and iron, which, combining in different proportions, pro- duce gelatin, albumen and fibrine, and these again, uniting variously, form the solids and fluids of the animal body, are, notwithstanding, highly interesting. From considerations of this kind, also, we are forcibly led to study and develop the physical elements of organic matter, for, when we are made acquainted wih their chemical ele- ments, we have not entered far into the know- ledge of man. As for the rest, I acknowledge the great utilit\ of chemistry, to which medicine and surgery and the fine arts owe many of their useful discove- ries. The science of animal chemistry is, never- theless, as yet in its infancy, however great the improvements made in our days. Nor is the anatomy of man itself capable of furnishing us with the means which comparative anatomy affords for the improvement of our know- ledge relative to the organization of man. For.