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description: Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Physiology During the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries The following Lectures were delivered as the "Lane Lectures" at the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco in the autumn of the past year. I have here and there expanded some parts, but otherwise the Lectures now appear very much as I delivered them. I do not pretend to have given a complete history of physiology even within the period to which I have limited myself. I have chosen certain themes which seemed to me important and striking, and I have striven to develope these, leaving untold a great deal which might be told concerning other themes. I have woven into the story of ideas, the stories of the personal lives of the men who gave birth to those ideas, partly in order to add to the human interest of the tale, but also and even more so because, in most cases at least, the fruitfulness of the labours of an inquirer is largely dependent on the inquirer's character and belongings. I very much fear that I have allowed many mistakes in what I have written to go unnoticed and uncorrected. I may plead in excuse that historical research, perhaps above all other kinds of research, demands ample leisure, and the time which I have been able to give to the present little work has been snatched from a life broken into bits by many and varied duties. I shall be very thankful to have my mistakes pointed out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
language: English
title: Lectures on the history of physiology during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
titlecomplete: Lectures on the history of physiology during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
publisher: Dover Publications Inc.