. Human physiology. ces, and differonly in the greater or less complexity of theirorganization. Independently of all other objec-tions, however, the animal differs, as we haveseen, from the vegetable, in composition; and this difference mustexist not only in the whole, but in its parts; so that, even were it de-monstrated that the globules of the beings of the two kingdoms arealike in size, it would by no means follow that they should be identicalin intimate composition. The discordance, which we have deplored, is strikingly applicableto the case before us. The appearance of the memoir of Dr.


. Human physiology. ces, and differonly in the greater or less complexity of theirorganization. Independently of all other objec-tions, however, the animal differs, as we haveseen, from the vegetable, in composition; and this difference mustexist not only in the whole, but in its parts; so that, even were it de-monstrated that the globules of the beings of the two kingdoms arealike in size, it would by no means follow that they should be identicalin intimate composition. The discordance, which we have deplored, is strikingly applicableto the case before us. The appearance of the memoir of Dr. Edwardsexcited the attention of M. Dutrochet, and in the following year his? Recherclies^ on the subject were published, in which he asserts, thatthe globules, which compose the different structures of invertebrated See, also, Calori, in Bulletino delle Scienze Medich. di Bologna, Sett., 1836, p. 152.^ Philosoph. Transact, for 1818; and Sir E. Home, Lectures on Comparative Ana-tomy, vol. iii. lect. 3, Lond., Xervous Tissue.


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