A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker.

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subsequent adjustment of experimental in¬ quiry, still various opinions prevail with respect to the true chemical characters of the various ingredients that enter the com¬ ponent partsof the blood. This may be seen by consulting the comprehensive work of Dr. Bostock, one of the most distinguished writers on Physiology, and of the largest contributors to the improvements of ani¬ mal chemistry since the period when those sciences began to make the most remark¬ able progress ; of whose well-earned fame it is not for me to speak more than the pleasure I have felt in seeing it extend, but of whose friendship, continued without the slightest interruption since our first youthful acquaintance, I am happy and proud to acknowledge on any occasion. I must refer to the whole of the fifth and sixth chapters of the first volume of his Elementary System of Physiology, for the various information to be obtained from them connected with my subject; but from the immediate application of the conclud¬ ing paragraph of these chapters to patholo¬ gical investigations of the changes produced