Outlines of human physiology / by Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1827
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Credit: Outlines of human physiology / by Herbert Mayo. 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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    and almost every important addition to physiology has been obtained by the same method. It is to be hoped that no one can look withont abhorrence upon deliberate or wanton cruelty: but who would brand with either reproach experiments calculated to determine principles directly or remotely of practical importance in medicine and surgery, or deny that they present an advantage to mankind, which may weigh against the attendant evil ? He at least, who applauds on the principle of expediency the daily destruction of animal life for other purposes, cannot consistently impugn the moral feelings of those, who shrink not from inflicting pain on inferior creatures, in order that the sum of human suffering may be lessened. The globe of the earth is formed of what are termed mineral substances, existing either in a solid, or in a liquid, or in a gaseous form. Upon or near its surface are found other bodies, which either live, or, being dead, preserve some remains of that shape and structure which they possessed during life. Living bodies are either plants or animals. The elaborate contrivances calcu- lated for special ends or functions, which admit of being displayed in the greater number, have obtained for the whole the general appellation of organized bodies. On the other hand, mineral substances, which taken indivi- dually consist of mere aggregations of similar particles, are termed unorganized. Mineral bodies are perhaps less correctly termed inert. The properties of unorganized matter produce in it con- tinual changes, though of a kind less adapted to excite observation, than those which modify organized bodies.
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