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Juan de Dios Ribot y Mas taught medicine in a Spain that had lost a generation of physicians to war and exile. This is his textbook: the functions of the body set out briefly, in the order a student needs them, drawing on the French schools that then led Europe. It belongs to the decades just before physiology became experimental — before Claude Bernard, before the laboratory — when the discipline still consisted of well-ordered observation and inherited doctrine. Read now, it shows exactly which questions a competent teacher of 1829 thought were settled, and which he already knew were not.
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