Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Physiology During the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries I very much fear that I have allowed manv mistakes in What I have written to go unnoticed and uncorrected. I may plead in excuse that historical research, perhaps above all other kinds of research, demands ample leisure, and the time which I have been able to give to the present little work has been snatched from a life broken into bits by many and varied duties. I shall be very thankful to have my mistakes pointed out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.