An Experimental Inquiry into the laws of the Vital Functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases ... In part republished ... from the Philosophical Transactions of 1815 and 1817, with the Report of the National Institute of France on the experiments of M. Le Gallois drawn up by F. H. A. von Humboldt, J. N. Hallé and P. F. Percy , and observations on that Report |
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