LECTURE I. 13 



qiiate to their intended design, that ana- 

 tomy becomes highly interesting from the 

 curiosity it excites, the knowledge it im- 

 parts, and the food for meditation it af- 

 fords. 



WJien also in the prosecution of our 

 anatomical enquiries, we as it were analyze 

 the body, or reduce it to its elementary 

 parts : when we find that every organ, and 

 every portion of it is composed of a few 

 and simple vessels, a few and simple fibres ; 

 that by these it is originally formed, kept 

 in constant repair, endowed with anim- 

 ation, 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 accom- 

 plish the duty which devolves to me, of 

 giving anatomical lectures in a place by no 

 means suited to anatomical demonstrations, 

 I thought I could not do better than speak 

 of the structure and functions of these ele- 

 mentary component parts of the body ; 



