The works of William Cullen : containing his physiology, nosology, and first lines of the practice of physic; with numerous extracts from his manuscript papers, and from his treatise of the materia medica / Edited by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1827
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    PART I. PHYSIOLOGY. IV. The doctrine which explains the conditions of the body and of the mind necessary to life and health, is called Physi- ology, or the Doctrine of the Animal Economy.—“ I mean that Physiology considers the matter of which the body is form- ed in its mixt, in its aggregation, and, especially, in its organ- ization or mechanism. With regard to the conditions of the body, Physiology considers every thing that natural philosophy, chemistry, or anatomy teaches with regard to it. But you are to observe that philosophy, chemistry, and anatomy consider the state of the body, and its several parts, abstracted from its several effects. The business of Physiology is only to explain the conditions which these sciences point out as applicable to the exercise of the functions of the body. “ I have added here a particular in my Physiology that is not common—‘ and of the mind and some persons may think that this is hardly done with propriety. However the condition of the mind may ultimately arise, we often do see conditions of mind arise, that we cannot trace to a corporeal cause; while, at the same time, they may produce very considerable effects upon the bodily state ; so that it was necessary to say that Physi-