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tlie absorbent system. Daubenton and Vicq- 

 d'-Azyr, of France, the dissections made under 

 the orders of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 

 Paris, Spallanzani, of Italy, Camper, of Hol- 

 land, the late extensive and systematic work of 

 Mons. CuviER, which exhibits the dawn of an 

 improved arrangement, and a great number of 

 the most eminent zoologists of the age, have strong 

 claim^" to be commemorated in a review of the 

 comparative anatomists of the eighteenth century/ 

 In concluding this brief survey of the subject, it 

 may not be improper to remark that far less re- 

 mained to be done in anatomy, at the commence- 

 ment of the late centur}% than in any of the other 

 branches of medicine. The leading principles of 

 the science had been chiefly ascertained and settled 

 by the industry and perseverance of preceding 

 ages. And the greater part of what was left to 

 be accomplished consisted in a superior fulness, ac- 

 curacy, and minuteness of description, more ele- 

 gance of delineation, more neatness and variety of 

 preparations, and a progressive improvement in the 

 arts of dissection and demonstration. It is evident 

 that, in all these respects, a considerable progress 

 has been made within the period under review. 



PHYSIOLOGY. 



That department of physical science which 

 treats of the various properties and functions of 



r In addition to the above-mentioned works and names, it may not be 

 improper to subjoin the following comparative anatomists, selected from a 

 great number. Fragments of the Curieux de la Nature; the collections of 

 Blasius and Valentini; Du Vernev, Collins, Stubbs, Colemax, 

 and Home, on quadrupeds and birds ; CllARAS, RoESEL, and FoNTANA, on 

 reptiles; Artkdi, the Gouans, and Broussonet, onfshes, Reaumur, 

 the Geoffrots, Bonnet, and Lyonnet, on i/rsects; and Ellis, Donati, 

 Trembley, Baker, Baster, Bouadsgu, Forskal, Adanson, Mui.- 

 T.tp, Pallas, and Diouemare, on %:'Qrms^ xeoph^tts and/>5(y/*j. 



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