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vated situation from which it can never be 

 removed. 



Mr. Hunter became a physiologist, and to 

 become such a physiologist as he was, it 

 was necessary that every variety of struc- 

 ture and of function should be surveyed in 

 every variety of living being; that nature 

 and nature's laws should be examined with 

 the most minute attention, and upon the 

 most extended scale; that parts should be 

 observed with microscopic scrutiny, and yet 

 that comprehensive views should be taken 

 of the whole. Afterwards, with the en- 

 lightened eye of a physiologist, he surveyed 

 the perverted actions of living bodies in 

 the production of diseases. 



Thus did he make surgery a science. 

 It is the knowledge of health that enables 



