An Enquiry Into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life: Being the Subject of the First Two Anatomical Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons, of LondonLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 - 95 pages |
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... considerably en- larged . Price 16s . in Boards . A DICTIONARY of PRACTICAL SUR- GERY , exhibiting the present State of the Principles and Practice of Surgery ; collected from the most authentic and original Sources of Information ...
... considerably en- larged . Price 16s . in Boards . A DICTIONARY of PRACTICAL SUR- GERY , exhibiting the present State of the Principles and Practice of Surgery ; collected from the most authentic and original Sources of Information ...
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... considerable Addi tions , Price 10s . 6d . Boards . " This work is more judicious than the Domestic Medicine o Dr. Buchan , which we have no doubt it will entirely supersede . ' Crit . Rev. April 1807 . " It is an advantage to have a ...
... considerable Addi tions , Price 10s . 6d . Boards . " This work is more judicious than the Domestic Medicine o Dr. Buchan , which we have no doubt it will entirely supersede . ' Crit . Rev. April 1807 . " It is an advantage to have a ...
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... considerable share of public reputation and practice without undertaking the labours I have men- tioned , without being a real student of his profession . I place before you the most animating incentive I know of to labour truly to ...
... considerable share of public reputation and practice without undertaking the labours I have men- tioned , without being a real student of his profession . I place before you the most animating incentive I know of to labour truly to ...
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... considerable talent for observation , and with a degree of zeal and industry , scarcely to be expected from one whose time and at- tention have been otherwise so much en- gaged ; I also , equally with him , feel in- terested in ...
... considerable talent for observation , and with a degree of zeal and industry , scarcely to be expected from one whose time and at- tention have been otherwise so much en- gaged ; I also , equally with him , feel in- terested in ...
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... considerable talent in microscopical ob- servations , for he says , that he could rea- dily distinguish the nature of any animal substance , which might be placed on the field of his microscope , by regarding its . ultimate fibres , and ...
... considerable talent in microscopical ob- servations , for he says , that he could rea- dily distinguish the nature of any animal substance , which might be placed on the field of his microscope , by regarding its . ultimate fibres , and ...
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Page 74 - ... to organization; they would then see equal reason to believe that mind might be superadded to life, as life is to structure. They would then indeed still farther perceive how mind and matter might reciprocally operate on each other by means of an intervening substance. Thus even would physiological researches enforce the...
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Page 14 - I think naturally conclude, that life does hot depend on organization. Mr. Hunter, who so patiently and accurately examined the different links of this great chain, which seems to connect even man with the common matter of the universe, was of this opinion. In speaking of the properties of life, he says, it is something that prevents...
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