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whilst walking the hospitals, published a work 

 on the " Entomology and Pathology of Psora 

 in Man/' which had been printed at the 

 expense of the Academy. 



These inquiries and examinations at Alfort 

 were persisted in for five years, and were con- 

 sidered to have led to very satisfactory results 

 as regards general pathology. But I have 

 spoken of these labours in the first part of my 

 book. 



Pardon me, reader, and do not "suppose 

 that vanity or any desire to parade my- 

 self has induced me to refer to these experi- 

 ments. No ; my only object is to show to 

 what results similar studies might lead, if they 

 were executed on a large scale and on the 

 whole animal kingdom; if, instead of these 

 partial efforts made under favour, some special 

 and appropriate medical institution encouraged 

 earnest experimentalists, supplying them with- 

 out stint with all necessary resources, and 

 with the best and completest instruments of 

 observation. 



Will any one deny, that if medical science 

 had been settled on this foundation fifty years 

 ago that is to say, since the exact sciences 



