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Excerpt from Treatise on Human Physiology: For the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine
The anatomist studies the form and relation of the weights, the pen dulum, the hands etc., at rest; the physiologist, the fall of the weight, the swinging of the pendulum, the movement of the hands. Anatomy is the statical, physiology the dynamical, part of biology.
As well might the mechanician hope to understand the movements of the clock and to regulate it without a knowledge of the parts com posing it, as for the physiologist to understand the motions of the living body without a previous knowledge of its structure.
Anatomy and physiology are so intimately associated that, philo sophically, they Should be studied together, indeed, to separate them, except for the convenience of teaching, 1s highly illogical.
AS Hyrtl3 well observes, Anatomy, unassociated with physiology, is a mindless study and does not deserve the name of a science. Can one study the arrangement of a machine without any reference to its object?
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