THE

INSTITUTIONS

ОР

PHYSIOLOGY

BY

J. FRED. BLUMENBACH,

Professor of Medicine in the University of Gottingen.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF THE THIRD AND ĻASI

EDITION,

AND

Supplied with numerous and extensive Notes,

BY

JOHN ELLIOTSON, M. D.

Member of Jesus College, Cambridge; the Royal College of Physicians, London; the
Medico-Chirurgical S ciety of London; Member and formerly President of
the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

SECOND EDITION.

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inventis, dispositio probatis.

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