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.

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    deration of man. This is the end which I proposed to myself, and to which every thing that I have advanced leads and refers. The relations of the physical agents to the animal eco- nomy are infinite. It was necessary to make a selection. I have confined myself to those direct actions, which the present state of the physical sciences furnishes us with the means of appreciating, and to the examination of their combinations. In the choice of the circumstances, of which I sought to discover the influence, I have always been guided by the wish to establish principles capable of useful application. The agents which I have examined, having immediate relation to the nervous system, and to the organs of respir- ation, circulation, exhalation, and absorption, I have been led to the investigation of a great number of facts con- nected with hygeia and pathology, of which an idea will at once be formed, when it is considered that I have been particularly occupied with modifications dependent on con- stitution, and with the changes which constitution under- goes through the operation of external agents. The greater number of the facts which I have related, were first brought forward in various papers which I have read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, or presented to that body as subjects for the prize founded for the promotion of experimental physiology.# * Chap I. The part, On Asphyxia was read to the Academy of Sciences in 1817. and printed in the Annates de Physique el de Chimie for the same year, Vol. 5. Chap. IT. The first part, On the Influence of Temperature was read to the Academy in 1818, and published in the Annates de Phy- sique et de Chimie the same year, Vol. 8. Chap. III. The first part, On the Influence of Air, contained in