Elements of physiology ... / Translated ... by G.J.M. De Lys.

  • Richerand, A. (Anthelme), 1779-1840
Date:
1815
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    PREFACE; via considered as having long remained, by its excellence, an impediment to the production of a similar succeeding work. Haller was fifty years engaged in the most ar- dent study of Physiology; his work, besides all that he himself, the great leader in physiological discovery, and also the most extensive discoverer, wished to give to the world, of his own, contained all that was known on the subject, at the time it appeared. As it was written too, in the Latin language, it found a ready access to every school of Medicine, and was every where received by the Profession as, at once, the most authen- tic record of the facts of Physiology, and the most luminous exposition of the principles. of the science. We cannot wonder, therefore, that, while Haller had _ exclusive possession of Physiology, no other writer should have attempted any work on the same subject, even for some time after his death, while the additions to the mass of knowledge were not sufficient to effect any important change in thescience. Now, however; enough has been added to change, in many important respects, the face of the science, and to demand syste- matic arrangement.. Of late years, accordingly, seve- ral works, composed with this view, have appeared on the Continent ; amongst which may be mentioned those of Blumenbach, Bichat, Dr. Dumas of Montpellier, and M. Richerand. | _. This priority in the systematic arrangement of our knowledge does not, however, at all imply. that the progress of Physiology abroad has been more. rapid than ‘in this.country. It would, be difficult. to say where it.is furthest advanced. If a comparative view. were to be given of the science,.as it, exists in Britain