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fet on foot and fupported by Leglflative provlfion; to the 

 end that young minds be early imbued with proper ideas on 

 this important fubjed. 



in difFerent animals, but in different parts of the fame animal, to explain tke various 

 ufes to which different parts are deflined. He endeavours to explain the phenomena 

 of the nervous fyftem, (to which the living principle is attached) to invefligate the laws 

 which regulate it, and the various conditions of it in difeafe. This leads him to the 

 confideration of the mutual influence of mind and body on each other, and of the caufes 

 of the different degrees of intelledual power obfervable in different individuals. He 

 then treats of the nature and properties of the blood ; of the circulation ; of refpiration ; 

 and of their connediion with the production of heat, and with the formation of the 

 voice, fpcech, &c. After the confideration of thefe, he treats of the digeftion of the 

 food, its affimilation into blood ; and laftly, of the properties of the different fluids 

 fecreted into different cavities, to ferve various purpofes in the animal economy. 



7. Surgery is taught by Profeffor Richard Batley ; and 



8. Samuel Nxcoll, M. D, is Profeffor ©f the Pxadice of Phyfic. 



