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CHAPTER I.

ON MEDICAL DOCTRINE.

§. I.

A decorative drop-cap 'A' contains an illustration of a classical urn on a stone base.From the time that, by the persuasion and solicitation of the most Illustrious Baron Van Swieten of pious memory, it was obtained from our most August Empress Maria Theresa that magnificent buildings should be constructed, in which the liberal arts, purged of the trifles of the ancients, are exposed to the genius of this century—namely, mechanics, statics, hydraulics, and hydrostatics, demonstrated by the help of machines, by which laws the human body has been accommodated by the supreme Creator—the Jatrophilus lover of medicine/medical student cannot help but penetrate the origins and exercises of the functions of the intimate structure. Hence, nourished by these, if he applies his mind to the first part of medical institutions, Physiology study of bodily functions—