A syllabus of the lectures delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College : to the medical students of Harvard University.

  • Jackson, James, 1777-1867.
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[1816]
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    far our race confidered in what is common to them. But confiderable differences are to be perceived among individuals. Of thefe we take notice under —v. Varieties. They all are influenced by and exercife an influence upon external things. Hence we confider—vi. The relation of the human fyftem to external things. It is by the agency of thefe that the functions of life are maintained. From a deficiency in them life may ceafe ; and, if it do not, it muft ultimately terminate by a lofs of the properties of vitality. Different modes of the termination of life confidered under—vn. Death. A very Urge proportiorTbT'what relates to this divifion [phyfiology] is taught in other courfes. Such parts will be confidered in this courfe as are not fo readily embraced in thofe. /. Compofttion of our bodies. * Elements ultimate and proximate—the diftinclion. ^ 1. Ultimate. Same as *n common matter Oxygen and certain combiiftible jnatte/s. in conv pounds bimary, ternary, &c. Thefe combined alfcf in common matter, but not in the fame propor- tions, &c. Art cannot imitate their combination in living bodies. 2. Proximate. All the fubftances in our bodies compofed of the ultimate elements. The fimpleft combinations of thefe conftitute the proximate ele- ments. These elements compounded by living pow-