Produced by Sonya Schermann, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. 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. Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES ON LIFE AND DEATH, BY XAVIER BICHAT; Translated from the French, BY F. GOLD, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON: WITH NOTES, BY F. MAGENDIE, Member of the Institute and of the Royal Academy of Medicine. _THE NOTES TRANSLATED_ BY GEORGE HAYWARD, M. D. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY RICHARDSON AND LORD. J. H. A. FROST, PRINTER. 1827. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS: _to wit_. _District Clerk’s Office._ BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of December, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, RICHARDSON & LORD, 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 on Life and Death, by Xavier Bichat; translated from the French, by F. Gold, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, with notes, by F. Magendie, member of the Institute and of the Royal Academy of Medicine. The notes translated by George Hayward, M. D.” In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, 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 times therein mentioned:” and also to an 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 times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints.” JOHN W. DAVIS, _Clerk of the District of Massachusetts_ 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. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE FRENCH EDITOR.