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enal; besides doing the* work of a professor, he attended to 

 a considerable practice, and during a single winter he is said 

 to have examined with care six hundred bodies in the pur- 

 suance of his researches upon pathological anatomy. 



Fig. 49. — Bichat, 1771-1801. 



In the year 1800, when he was thirty years old, began to 

 appear the results of his matured researches. We speak of 

 these as being matured, not on account of his age or the great 

 number of years he had labored upon them, but from the 



