TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



BOOK I. General Principles ...... ...... .. 1 



Chapter I. Truth ...... . . . . I 



II. Causation ...... ...... 15r 



HI. Universal Scheme, in connection with the foregoing 



principles .... .... 36 



BOOK II. On the Organic Origin of Man . . 60 



Chapter I. Maternal Ovum .... .... .. 64 



II. Fecundated Ovum 77 



III. Origin of Man by Constitution +* 103 



BOOK III. Of Post-Foetal Life ,,117 



SECTION I. General Relations 119 



Chapter I. Condition of the Spirit, &c. . . . . . . 119 



II. Of the Mode in which Life is maintained .... 124 



III. Growth 131 



- IV. Animal Heat ..148 



V. General Relations of Vital, Chymical, and Mechani- 

 cal Agencies , .... - 153 



VI. General Relation of the Spirit with itself, in different 



Seats 162 



SECTION II. On the Preparatory Organs 



Chapter I. General Relations of Preparatory Organs . . . . 171 



II. The Stomach .... .... .... 177 



III. The Intestines .... .. 186 



IV. The Liver .... .... 192 



V. The Spleen .... 200 



VI. The Pancreas .... 203 



. VII. The Mesenteric Absorbents .... ...... 204 



