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parts, and the food for meditation it 

 affords. 



When also in the prosecution of our 

 anatomical enquiries, we as it were ana- 

 lyze the body, or reduce it to its ele- 

 mentary parts ; when we find that every 

 organ, and every portion of it, is com- 

 posed of a few and simple vessels, a few 

 and simple fibres ; that by these it is 

 originally formed, kept in constant repair, 

 endowed with animation, sensation, and 

 motion ; we become lost in astonishment 

 that such important ends can be effected 

 by apparently such simple means. 



On reflecting how I might best accomplish 

 the duty which devolves to me, of giving 

 anatomical lectures in a place by no 

 means suited to anatomical demonstra- 

 tions, I thought I could not do bet- 

 ter than speak of the structure and 



