Chap. IV.] ' SOURCES OF PHYSICS ' PUBLISHED. 25 



CHAPTEE rV. 



1843 TO 1847. 



'Sources of Physics,' second book, 1843-1844 — Lectures on 'Detection of 

 Needles ' — 1845 — Paper, ' Application of Electricity to Surgery ' — Carmine 

 injections — Potato disease — 1846 — Third hook on the 'Potato Plant' 

 — Aphis vastator, nomenclature of — 1847 — ^Rancorous animosity and skits 

 on A. S. — Famine Pood soirfe — Skeleton of lecture — Lecture — Ventilation 

 — Smee's ether inhaler. 



The same year appeared Alfred Smee's book on ' The Sources of 

 Physical Science,' which was specially written as an introdnction 

 to the ' Study of Physiology through Physics,' and which comprises 

 the connection of the several departments of physical science, their 

 dependence on the same laws, and the relation of the material to 

 the immaterial. This work was published on the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, 1843. It is divided into seven chapters, thus : — 



Chap. L — The Fundamental Sciences. — Matter — Arithmetic — Attractioii. 



„ II. — On the Sciences of Matter under Attraction. — Chemistry — 

 Crystallography — Geometry — Trigonometry — Gravity — Mag- 

 netism.. 



„ ni. — On the Sciences of the JHstvrhance of Attraction. — ^Electricity — 

 Mechanics — Hydrostatics — ^Pneumatics. 



„ IV. — The Sciences of Actions and Beactions. — Time — ^Heat — Light — 

 Sound — Odour. 



„ V. — On the Performance of Swnan Operations. 



„ VI. — On the Complex Sciences. 



,, Vn. — On the Relation of the Material to the Immaterial. 



He had originally intended to draw up a slight sketch of 

 physical science to form an introductory chapter to his great 

 work, 'Electro-Biology,' which appeared about six years later; 

 but finding that he was unable to compress the matter of the 

 intended chapter within three hundred pages, he resolved to 

 publish the work as a separate treatise. 



At the commencement of my physiological inquiries (he writes) I 

 had no idea of dedicating a separate volume to the Sources of Physical 



