Kalogynomia, or the laws of female beauty: being the elementary principles of that science / By T. Bell, M.D. With twenty-four plates.

  • Bell, T.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Kalogynomia, or the laws of female beauty: being the elementary principles of that science / By T. Bell, M.D. With twenty-four plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In short, digestion prepares the vital matter, which is taken up by absorption—^ the hi st of the simple vital functions; respiration renovates it in the very middle of its coarse—between the two portions of the simple function of circulation; and generation^ dependent on secretion—the last of these functions, communicates tliis vital matter, or propagates vitality to a new^ series of beings. In such arrange- ment, the digestive organs, therefore, pre- cede, and the generative follow, the simple vital organs ; while the respiratory oc- cupy a middle place between the veinous and the arterial circulation. Nothing, however, can be more improper, as the preceding observations shew, than consider- ing any one of these as a distinct class.