An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease ... / [C. Turner Thackrah].

  • Thackrah, Charles Turner, 1795-1833.
Date:
1834
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease ... / [C. Turner Thackrah]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S PREFACE. Tue papers from which this posthumous edition of Mr. ‘Thackrah’s “‘ Inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood” has been compiled, were bequeathed by him to a young physician who had been his pupil,with a direct view to his editorial care. That gentleman, however, shrunk from the task of arranging and transcribing the manuscripts, and seeing the work through the press; and at the request of the author’s widow, whose veneration for her husband’s professional ability induced her to be devotedly bent on carrying his wishes into effect, I undertook to complete and publish the volume. It is now twelve months since the MSS. were placed in my hands: yet on mentioning the state in which the author had left them, and the precise acquaintance with the subject which it was neces- sary to acquire before commencing my duty, I feel that no further apology need be offered for the