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in these newly enounced views. In France, even, 

 the importance of these ideas could not be wholly de- 

 nied, and they soon forced themselves on the attention 

 of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, which certainly 

 cannot be accused of any inconsiderate love of scientific 

 innovation. In several of his public lectures, M. 

 Aridral developed these new theories, exposed and 

 demonstrated the facts on which they were based, 

 and the important consequences which might result 

 from them by aiding us to arrive at a more exact 

 appreciation of many of the physiological and pa- 

 thological phenomena which are daily observed in 

 the human subject. We see, therefore, that a careful 

 study of the inferior animals is not to be regarded as 

 purely speculative a view which is unfortunately 

 still too generally adopted. 



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