An inaugural thesis on the relation between the sanguiferous and nervous systems : submitted to the examination of the Rev. Horace Holley, A.M. ; A.A.S. President, the trustees and medical professors of Transylvania University, on the 12th day of March, 1822 ; for the degree of doctor of medicine.

  • Miller, Henry, 1800-1874.
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1822
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Credit: An inaugural thesis on the relation between the sanguiferous and nervous systems : submitted to the examination of the Rev. Horace Holley, A.M. ; A.A.S. President, the trustees and medical professors of Transylvania University, on the 12th day of March, 1822 ; for the degree of doctor of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and vegetable kingdoms. The numerous and highly di- re rsified subjects of these two important kingdoms of life, appear to be nothing else than different individuals of one extensive family, descended from a common parent, and exhibiting the most unequivocal testimonies of their kindred nature. Like the delicate tints of light and shade in a well finished picture, they so gradually inter- mingle, and run into each other so insensibly, that it is literally impossible to say with definitude, where the one terminates and the other begins.* It may not be improper to present a brief exposition of the analogies between animals and vegetables, on which, we suppose, the foregoing remarks of the professor are founded. 1st. They both have life. The application of stimuli elicits motion in ♦ ach, and both are excited to the propa- gation of their species by the genial rays of the vernal sun. 2. The analysis of both affords the same elementary constituent principles, viz. oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, ar d azote, the latter abounding most in animal matter, which disposes it sooner to assume the putrefactive pro- cess, when deprived of vitality. 3. Both are regularly organized, and possess digestive, assimilative and nutritive functions. 4. Plants as well as animals have their periods of in- fancy, increase, maturity, decline and death. 6. Plants, like animals,propagate their species. It was upon the sexuality of vegetables that the celebrated Swe- dish naturalist constructed his admirable system ofBot- *Tianslation of Blumenbach's Physiology, vol: l,p, 47.