A short system of comparative anatomy / translated from the German of J. F. Blumenbach ... by William Lawrence ... with numerous additional notes and an introductory view on the classification of animals, by the translator.

  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Date:
1807
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Credit: A short system of comparative anatomy / translated from the German of J. F. Blumenbach ... by William Lawrence ... with numerous additional notes and an introductory view on the classification of animals, by the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    t • Laftly, this ftudy opens to the m'md a great, fource of intereft and fatisfadion, in exhibiting fuch numerous and undeniable proofs of the exertion of contrivance and defign in the aqimal ftrudure : in difplaying thofe mo- difications of particular parts and organs, by which they are adapted to the peculiar cir- cumftances of the animal, and become fubfer- vient to its wants, its neceffities, or its enjoy- ments. The importance of the fubjedt from the above mentioned circumftances is now fo fully recognized, that it begins with juftice to be confidered as an eflential part of a regu- lar medical education. Public lectures have been delivered on it for fome years in Germany and France; and lately the example has been . followed in this metropolis. Yet a fhort elementary treatife on the fubjed ftill remains a defideratum *; and I have undertaken the tranf- Blasius has given a colkaion of the writings of feve- ral authors on the anatomy of particular animals, in one volume 4to, entitled Jnatomia JnlmaUum Figtiris %'arUs illujlratay Amael. 1681, which may ftill be confulted with
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