Somatopsychonoologia : showing that the proofs of body life and mind considered as distinct essences cannot be deduced from physiology but depend on a distinct sort of evidence : being an examination of the controversy concerning life carried on by MM. Laurence, Abernethy, Rennell, & others / by Philostratus.

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster

Date:: 1823

Credit: Somatopsychonoologia : showing that the proofs of body life and mind considered as distinct essences cannot be deduced from physiology but depend on a distinct sort of evidence : being an examination of the controversy concerning life carried on by MM. Laurence, Abernethy, Rennell, & others / by Philostratus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. What is comprised in the following sheets being only the amusement of a few leisure intervals of professional occupations, which the author employed in examining the con- troversy respecting Life which arose out of the Hunterian Orations, would never have been laid before the public, but for the fol- lowing reasons. A sort of indirect aspersion seemed to be thrown out by the advocate of the Hun- terian Doctrine of Life, against a scientific adversary, implying motives on the part of the latter by which it is hardly possible to suppose he can have been impelled, and in- volving, by an obscure use of the words The Party, a number of other persons of similar opinions. The author considering himself as included in the sweeping but ambiguous charge, by having emerged origi- nally from the same school of anatomy, and having pursued physiology to similar conclu- sions, and being at the same time conscious of no other motive than the advancement

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