Volume 1

General anatomy, applied to physiology and the practice of medicine / By X. Bichet ; Translated from the last French edition, by Constant Coffyn. Revised and corrected by George Calvert.

  • Bichet, Xavier, 1771-1802.
Date:
1824
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Credit: General anatomy, applied to physiology and the practice of medicine / By X. Bichet ; Translated from the last French edition, by Constant Coffyn. Revised and corrected by George Calvert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION I. General Remarks on Physiological and Physical' • - Sciences, These distinctions are foonded essentially on the difFerenee that exists between the properties^^ presiding over the phenomena which are the; subject of each class of science. Such is, in facty the immense influence of these properties, that they are the hrst cause of all these phenomena. Let us investigate those of astronomy, hydraulics, dynamics, optics, accoustics, &c. and ultimately we shall be led by a long deduction of causes to gravity and elasticity, as the period of our re- searches. In the same way the vital properties are uniformly the primum mobile to which we must ascend, whether the phenomena we study are those of respiration, digestion, secretion, cir- culation, inflammation, or fever, &c. Nature, in bestowing existence on each indi- vidual body, has endowed it with a certain num- ber of properties that characterise it in particu- I lar, and in virtue of which it contributes as far as its faculties extend, to all the phenomena which are incessantly developing, connecting themselves together, and succeed each other in the universe. If we cast our eyes around us, or direct them towards the most distant objects; if we take the telescope and survey those bodies that are floating in space, or the microscope, and look into the world of atoms, whose extreme s