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  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