PHYSICIAN OF THE HOTEL-DIEU, PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY
AND MEDICINE, AND MEMBER OF SEVERAL LEARNED SOCIETIES,

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH

BY TOBIAS WATKINS,

MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND,
PHYSICIAN TO THE MARINE HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE, &c.

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE SECOND PARIS EDITION.

PRINTED BY SMITH & MAXWELL

PHILADELPHIA.

1809.

District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the third day of July, in the thirty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1809, Smith & Maxwell, of the said district, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

Physiological Researches upon Life and Death; by Xav. Bichat, Physician of the Hotel-Dieu, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Medicine, and Member of several Learned Societies. Translated from the French by Tobias Watkins, Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Physician to the Marine Hospital of Baltimore, &c.

First American from the second Paris edition.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

(L. S.)

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D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.

ADVERTISEMENT

OF

THE PARIS EDITOR.

IT was the intention of the author to have made some important additions to the first part of this new edition. Certain Articles now offered with modifications, would have appeared more complete, and been enriched with several new views: the reader would have found in it a Treatise on Beauty, considered physiologically. In a second volume, these physiological principles would have been applied to Medicine; and the same order which has now been pursued, in considering the functions in their healthy state, would have been adopted to consider them also in a state of disease. The death of the author has deprived the public of these advantages, and compels us again to offer the work in its original state. We conceived it due however, to the memory of citizen BICHAT, to make known those intentions, the fulfilment of which he had already commenced.