Anatomy of the European Mole

If there is anything that can bring light to the reasoning that philosophers have recently followed to illustrate and examine physiology, this praise must undoubtedly be attributed to comparative anatomy. For the authority of the analogies that they follow as a guide increases all the more, the more examples you have collected. This is something Haller already clearly perceived, as he confesses that physiology owes more to comparative anatomy than to any other method of investigating it. If, therefore, an accurate description of every animal existed, especially of those parts whose use and functions are more obscure and doubtful, we would soon have a clearer understanding of the whole of physiology, which is the most excellent pillar of medicine and the "first matter of philosophy."