THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 

 AND JOURNAL. 



I. Facts and Observations relating to the Co?inexion hettveen 

 vascular and extra-vascular Substances in living organized 

 Bodies. By AmthoiNY Carlisle, Surgeo7i Extraordinary 

 to His Royal Hiahness the Prince Regent, and His Royal 

 Highness the Duke of Gloucester, F.R.S. F.A.S, F.L.S. 



&c. m. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, — JL HE following memoir having been partially made 

 known to the public, I beg you to lay it before your scientific 

 readers, as a means of preventing misrepresentation or piracy. 

 I am, sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 Soho Square, July 4, 1815. AntHONY CARLISLE. 



General or comparative anatomy, the great branch of natural 

 knowledge on which the rationale of medical art is founded, has 

 lately risen in esteem, and is every day more accurately and 

 more extensively cultivated. Considering how intimately the 

 discoveries of new facts, their relation to each other, and the 

 ))hysiological inferences to be drawn from them, are connected 

 with the previous establishment of definite views, of clear intel- 

 ligible terms, and of strict physical methods ; and feeling the 

 importance of the present subject, I hasten to submit this me- 

 moir to competent judges. I am aware that premature genera- 

 lization of facts as well as premature inductions from tliem, are 

 seldom useful ; and 1 should not have troubled the scientific in- 

 (juirer with this comnmnication had I not felt assured that the 

 present state both of anatomy and physiology would authorise 

 it. In my statements I shall purposely avoid all metaphysical 



Vol. 4G. No. 207. My 1815. A 2 pretension 



