Physiological Researches On Life and Death Part 2 - Xavier Bichat - Platanus Publishing

“In the first part of this work, I have explained the two great divisions of life, together with the remarkabletwo remarkabledifferences, which distinguish the animal existing without, from the animal existing within. I have discussed thefrom the characters which are exclusively proper to the two lives, andcharacters and the particular laws, according to which they both of themthe them commence, are developed and end in the natural order. In this second part I shall inquire in what way they accidentally finish, in what way their course is prematurelyaccidentally prematurely arrested. The influence of society suffers us but rarely to live out the period which was intended us by nature; while almostthe almost every other animal attains his natural end, such end inevery in the human species is become a sort of phenomenon. The different kinds then of accidental death, should engage thedifferent the particular attention of the physician and physiologist. Nowparticular Now this sort of death may happen in two ways: sometimes it isthis is the result of great disturbance excited in the economy; andthe and sometimes it is the effect of disease.”