Outlines of human physiology / By Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1829
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Credit: Outlines of human physiology / By Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arachnoid membrane is in a position analogous to that of the neck of the thigh bone: it is not in any sort of contact with the cellular texture; and its restoration when divided is equally imperfect. Yet in such a case every other condition favourable to reparation 1s present: the divided surfaces are nearly in apposition, the supply of blood is not interrupted, and the parts are kept perfectly at rest. Questions like the preceding insensibly lead the student from the elementary details, which have occu- pied us in the. present volume, to that higher physio- logy which immediately contains the principles of the healing art. No studies indeed (as I trust I have shown) possess greater philosophical interest than the examination of the natural structure and functions of the human body. Yet attractive as these studies are, and serviceable as they directly prove to the physician and to the surgeon, they should be viewed as a part only, and that the simplest part of the knowledge which he must attain. They but enable him ¢o begin the inves- tigation of those restorative processes, which his skill is to control and to direct; and of those derange- ments of structure and function, to remedy which re- quires a yet finer application of that art, which seeks to alleviate the physical evils of our nature, and to lessen the sum of human suffering.
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