An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton].

  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Date:
1792?]
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Credit: An essay on generation / Translated from the German [by A. Crichton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    &c. But we plainly remarked that the re- generated animals, although fupplied with plenty of proper food, were always much {maller than before, and a mutilated rump, always diminifhed very evidently, both in length and diameter, in proportion as the loft parts were renewed('). Soon after my return to town, I was called to a patient who hada caries. The difeafe occupied the lower end of the femur immediately above the knee, and had caufed (f) Lt is probable that this circumffance has been either totally overlooked by fuch as were en= gaged in obferving phenomena of greater magnitude in the hiftory of this animal, or if it has been ob- Served by any, it does not feem to have appeared to them, of fufficient importance to be noticed. That attentive, and accurate obferver Roefel, however, Seems to have noticed this fad. Vide Hipp. der Poly. pen, in the third vol. of the Lnfecten-beluftigungen, a pretty