To J.C. Lettsom ... president; to the council and fellows of the Medical Society of London; this annual oration ... is dedicated / by Richard Saumarez.

Date:
1813
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Credit: To J.C. Lettsom ... president; to the council and fellows of the Medical Society of London; this annual oration ... is dedicated / by Richard Saumarez. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Introduction. CHAPTER I. On the Principles of Science. CHAPTER II. On the essential Properties of Matter, with relation to the Principle of Life. CHAPTER III. On the Nature and Evolution of the Principle of Life, com- prehending the different Ends for which Vegetables, Brutes, and the human Species, were created. CHAPTER IV. The doctrine of Materialism stated and refuted ; and the Immateriality of the Soul attempted to be proved. CHAPTER v. On Sensation and its Objects. CHAPTER VI. On the Physiology of organic Life, comprehending the means by which organic Actions are excited and supported—sus- pended and destroyed ; and the whole of the System decom- posed into its elementary parts.
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