An elementary compendium of physiology; for the use of students / By F. Magendie ; Translated from the French, with copious notes, tables and illustrations by E. Milligan.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855. Précis élémentaire de physiologie. English
Date:
1826
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Credit: An elementary compendium of physiology; for the use of students / By F. Magendie ; Translated from the French, with copious notes, tables and illustrations by E. Milligan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cranlologu^'^ Sympathy^ Cerebral Pulsations^ Theo^ ry of Sleep, &c.; comprehending the experiments and reasoning of Galen, Harvey, Haller, Hunter, Monro, Spallanzani, Blumenhach, Philip, Bichat, Gordon, Legallois, Tiedemann, and many others. The Second Edition has been almost entirely re¬ cast, at least in the first volume, and more than 200 pages added, according to the French Edition. These comprehend an immense number of new and im- ])ortant additions ; The recent Discoveries in the Nervous System, those respecting the Blood, Respi¬ ration, Animal Heat, Animcd Motio7i, Imhihition, Absorption, and a multitude of others, the labours of Magendie, Flourens, Bell, Edwards, Dumas and Prevost, Rolando, Piedagnel, Rullier, Fodera, Desmoulins, Mayo, Dulong, Gasper d, Shaw, Ribes, Segalas, and many eminent persons besides, whose names will be found at the articles reduced from their original publications. The author has likewise added two gjlates, illustrative of the circu¬ lation of the blood, and four extensive Zoological Syjwpses, drawn up by his friend Desmoidins, the author of the “ Nervous System in Vertebral Ani¬ mals.” To enable the student more easily to comprehend * Under this article the Translator has deemed it necessary, as one who re¬ spected his own character, even among that juvenile class of readers, (who, however, will one day be men), for whose perusal the Phrenological Journal is evidentlv intended, to rebut the malignant aspersions of that work, in its place in the notes.