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Excerpt from An Elementary Compendium of Physiology: For the Use of Students
The reader, then, will find, more. Especially, a number of facts in this book of which I have myself established the cer tainty, sometimes by observation upon man in health or disease, sometimes by experiments upon living animals. Amongst these facts, the reader will observe many which are entirely new.
I have not, nevertheless, neglected the possible and useful application Of'the principles of natural philosophy, mechanics, chemistry, &c., to the phenomena of life: perhaps they may appear different from those which have hitherto been advanced; for I have spared no pains to ascertain their accuracy*.
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