Note
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter that has footnotes. Several are very long.
Translator’s Preface
The Translator of the Work which is here offered to the Public, feels it quite unnecessary to expatiate upon the merits of its Author, whose ideas and classifications in Physiology are now very generally adopted. He has supposed, however, that the experiments which constitute the Second Part of the Work, are not so familiar to Professional Men, as many of the conclusions which have been deduced from them, and therefore has presumed that a greater publicity of these experiments will by no means be unserviceable. Dr. Kentish, in his account of Baths, has mentioned the circumstances which led to this translation.