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Perhaps that was a more cheerful time for observers and theorizers than

the present; we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when

A to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he

recked, doy were a fine Aate was a the scientific, rational basis of his profession The more

he became interested in special questions of disease, such as the

nature of fever or fevers, the e of structure which just at the beginning of the

century had been illulorious career of

Bichat, who died when he was only one-and-thirty, but, like another

Alexander, left a realreat

French bodies,

fundaans which can be

understood by studying them first apart, and then as it were federally;

butof certain prians--brain, heart, lungs, and so on--are

compacted, as the various accommodations of a house are built up in

various proportions of wood, iron, stone, brick, zinc, and the rest,

eachits peculiar composition and proportions No man,

one sees, can understand and estimate the entire structure or its

parts--what are its frailties and what its repairs, without knowing the

nature of the ht out by Bichat,

with his detailed study of the different tissues, acted necessarily on

ht would act on a di new connections and hitherto hidden facts of

structure whichthe symptoms