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THE AUTHORS PREFACE 



FIRST EDITION. 



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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. * 



The latter, "That, although he formerly used 

 Boerhaave's work as a text-book, he afterwards 



Pref. to the Institut. Medic. Leyden. Fourth edition. 



