On the influence of physical agents on life / by W.F. Edwards ; tr. from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher ; to which are added, in the appendix, Some observations on electricity, by Dr. Edwards, Pouillet, and Luke Howard ; On absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin ; On the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J.J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin ; and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards.

  • Edwards, W. F. (William Frédéric), 1777-1842.
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the influence of physical agents on life / by W.F. Edwards ; tr. from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher ; to which are added, in the appendix, Some observations on electricity, by Dr. Edwards, Pouillet, and Luke Howard ; On absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin ; On the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J.J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin ; and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    respect to the original work, to which I have to acknowledge the obligation of much important assistance in practice, I must confess myself very differently circumstanced with regard to the trans- lation. To suit the convenience of English students, who have in general neither time nor inclination for voluminous reading, Dr. Fisher and myself have laboured, as far as possible, to compress the work without omitting a single experiment or conclusion. This, however, has been no easy task, as Dr. Edwards' own method of exposing the subjects of which he treats is in general too concise to admit of abbreviation, without incurring the risk of producing obscurity. I have thought it best, in publishing the transla- tion, to omit the copious tables, in which the Author has set forth the individual results of his very nu- merous experiments, to enable the reader to con- firm the conclusions which he has deduced from them. These form a valuable addition to the ori- ginal work, but as I conceive that the majority of readers will rarely if ever refer to the tables, I have judged that to reprint them would consi- derably and needlessly increase the price of the book. Those who are engaged in similar re- searches with Dr. Edwards, and are desirous of referring to the tables, may easily consult them in the original work, since, as they are almost