An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton].
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- Date:
- 1792?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘Ill. In the formation of fome particular parts of any organized body, the Formative Nifus is much more regular in its proce/s, than in that of others. Thus the brain, fays old Conr. Via. Schneider, a man much diftin- guifhed in phyfiology, is feldom or never found to deviate from the ufual ftru@ure(!). On the contrary, how great and frequent are the variations in many other parts, fuch as in the _ kidneys, and Thoracic Duct, &c.. Amoneft the many deviations of the formative procefs from its ufual courfe, thefe are principally to be mentioned. 1ft, Where one fpecies of organic. body takes on the action of that of another. To this belong fome of the moft unac- countable phenomena in nature, which, as () <* In corpore humano,’’ he fays, * nulla <¢ pars faciem fuam rarius muta] quam cerebrum.?? far](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33281907_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
