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" ... which bear the character of vitality, have been alternately the common base on which have rested all physiological explanations. These bases have been successively overturned, and among their ruins the facts alone remain which a rigorous experience... "
Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death - Page 65
by Xavier Bichat - 1809 - 300 pages
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The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And Collateral ..., Volume 9

John Ware - Medicine - 1820 - 318 pages
...acknowledging our ignorance of causes, be content to observe their phenomena. "Such," says Bichat, "are the narrow limits of the human understanding,...causes is almost always denied to it. The thick veil that covers them, envelops in ils innumerable folds whoever attempts to rend it asunder." Many of the...
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Romantic Medicine and John Keats

Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...the human understanding, that the knowledge of first causes seems placed forever beyond our reach. The thick veil which covers them, envelops in its innumerable folds whoever attempts to break through it. In the study of nature, principles are certain general results of first causes, from...
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