Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Conomy (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ... SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DIGESTION. THE paper which I formerly presented to the Royal Society, on the stomach being digested after death, and which was published in 1772, in the 62nd volume of the Philosophical Transactions, seems to have attracted the attention of Spallanzani, and others. I shall therefore make some remarks upon the experiments and opinions of those gentlemen; compare them with those of Reaumur, and give some general facts and observations of my own upon digestion, and shall conclude by adding a copy of the above mentioned paper, with the hope that others will take up the subject in a more enlarged point of view, and prosecute an inquiry which is of so much consequence in the investigation of the operations of the animal conomy. I cannot, at present, spare sufficient time to give my opinions at large on this subject, with all the experiments and observations I have made upon it; but as soon as I have leisure I shall lay them beforethe public. The discovery of parts has been a principal object in the researches of the young or practical anatomist; but the connection, arrangement, mode of action, and uses of the whole, or of particular organs, have more commonly been reserved for the consideration of those whose views were extended further; and whose powers of reasoning had been enlarged by habits of observation and inquiry. Curious and speculative men have likewise made attempts in this way, often without being sufficiently acquainted with the structure of the parts they were about to consider; and consequently ignorant of their relations and connections with one another. They have not been contented to speculate concerning those which were most obvious, which might have led to useful knowledge; but directed by what best suited their fan...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ... SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DIGESTION. THE paper which I formerly presented to the Royal Society, on the stomach being digested after death, and which was published in 1772, in the 62nd volume of the Philosophical Transactions, seems to have attracted the attention of Spallanzani, and others. I shall therefore make some remarks upon the experiments and opinions of those gentlemen; compare them with those of Reaumur, and give some general facts and observations of my own upon digestion, and shall conclude by adding a copy of the above mentioned paper, with the hope that others will take up the subject in a more enlarged point of view, and prosecute an inquiry which is of so much consequence in the investigation of the operations of the animal conomy. I cannot, at present, spare sufficient time to give my opinions at large on this subject, with all the experiments and observations I have made upon it; but as soon as I have leisure I shall lay them beforethe public. The discovery of parts has been a principal object in the researches of the young or practical anatomist; but the connection, arrangement, mode of action, and uses of the whole, or of particular organs, have more commonly been reserved for the consideration of those whose views were extended further; and whose powers of reasoning had been enlarged by habits of observation and inquiry. Curious and speculative men have likewise made attempts in this way, often without being sufficiently acquainted with the structure of the parts they were about to consider; and consequently ignorant of their relations and connections with one another. They have not been contented to speculate concerning those which were most obvious, which might have led to useful knowledge; but directed by what best suited their fan...

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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74

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978-1-235-71269-2

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9781235712692

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1-235-71269-9



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