Physiological lectures, addressed to the College of Surgeons
By: By John Abernethy, ..
Contributors: Hunter, John, 1728-1793; Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 dedicatee; Royal College of Surgeons of England; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library; King's College London
Publisher: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Physiognomy; Mind and body; Psychology; Tumors; Emotions; Phrenology; Psychophysiology; Inflammation; Life (Biology); Nervous system; Localization of functions; Personality; Head; Comparative Anatomy; Diseases; Causes and theories of causation; Anatomy; Brain; Suppuration; Temperament; Comparative Physiology; Characters and characteristics; Physiology
Other titles: Abernethy's works - Lectures.
Notes: "Physiological lectures..." has dedication page to Sir Joseph Banks.

Each section has divisional title page and pagination sequence. Second and third divisional title pages have full publication details. The publication date for the second is 1819; for the third, 1822.

Spine title: "Abernethy's works - Lectures."

Appendix to "Physiological lectures" : "Extract from the European Magazine for 1782, containing a Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Surgery, delivered by Mr. John Hunter, F. R. S., St. James's, London, with anecdotes of his life."

Includes bibliographical references.

This material has been provided by King ́s College London. The original may be consulted at King ́s College London.

King ́s College London.
Table of contents: title: An enquiry into the probability and rationality of Mr. Hunter's theory of life; being the subject of the first two anatomical lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London in the year 1814.; title: Part of the introductory lecture for the year 1815, exhibiting some of Mr. Hunter's opinions respecting diseases. Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in London.; title: Physiological lectures, exhibiting a general view of Mr. Hunter's physiology, and of his researches in comparative anatomy. Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in the year 1817.; title: Reflections on Gall and Spurzheim's system of physiognomy and phrenology. Addressed to the court of assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, in June, 1821.