THE AUTHORS PREFACE 



TO THE 



FIRST EDITION. 



THE same considerations which led Boerhaave, 

 and after him Haller, to write their Compendiums 

 of Physiology, induced the Author to compose 

 these Institutions. 



The former says, " that a teacher succeeds bet- 

 ter in commenting upon his own thoughts, than 

 upon a work written by another : that his doc- 

 trine will be clearer, and his language generally 

 animated," &c. * 



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Th<3 latter, " That, although he formerly used 

 Boevhaav^V work as a text-book, he afterwards 



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* !Pref. to the Jiistit.nl, Medic. Leyden, Fourth edition, 



