THE 



INSTITUTIONS 





OF 



PHYSIOLOGY 



BY 



/. FRED. BLUMENBACH, M.D. 



Professor of Medicine in the University of Gbttingen. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF THE THIRD AND 

 LAST EDITION, 



AND SUPPLIED 



WITH COPIOUS NOTES, 



BY 



JOHN ELLIOTSON, M.D. 



ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO ST. THOMAS-S HOSPITAL ; 



Of Jesus College, Cambridge ; the Royal College of Physicians ; the Medico-Chirurgical 



Society ; Honorary Member of the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital ; 



and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society 



of Edinburgh. 



THIRD EDITION, CONSIDERABLY IMPROVED. ., 



" 



Quaerainus optima, nee protinus se offerentibus 

 adhiboatur judicium inventis, dispositio probatis. 



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 55, Great Windmill Street, Haymarket; 



HODGES AND M'ARTHUR, DUBLIN ; AND 

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1820. 



