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Rh solicitude to determine all the conditions under which facts exist, and to state their relations in combination; thus proving that he possessed a truly scientific turn of mind.

The true position in which the intellectual character of a man is placed, is not always accurately discovered, without estimating the collateral assistance that the state of science in his day may afford him. A long list of labourers might be enumerated, who have traced with niceness and precision, all the beauties of the human frame. How many hands, and how many ages, have been required to bring anatomy to that state it now assumes! How numerous and how intricate, therefore, must the structure be, that demands such toil and time, to display its excellences! But anatomy alone does not complete the knowledge of the living body. It is in a higher scale of knowledge than that of mere structure, that the true principles of Physiology and Pathology are