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Title: Popular Lectures on Zoonomia
Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

Author: Thomas Garnett

Release Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #27748]

Language: English

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Produced by R. L. Garnett

POPULAR LECTURES
ON
ZOONOMIA,
OR
THE LAWS OF ANIMAL LIFE,
IN
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

BY THOMAS GARNETT, M.D.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON; OF THE ROYAL
IRISH ACADEMY; OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE; FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY;
MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY, LONDON; AND OF THE LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER: &c. &c.
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND CHEMISTRY IN THE
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON:
FROM THE PRESS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN:
W. SAVAGE, PRINTER.
PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AUTHOR'S CHILDREN BY HIS EXECUTORS.
TO BE HAD OF MR. NICHOLSON, SOHO SQUARE, MR. PRICE,
WESTMINSTER LIBRARY, JERMYN STREET,
AND OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.
1804.

[FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT]

THOMAS GARNETT. M.D.

L. R. Smith, del.
Lenney, sculpt.

Published Jan. 1, 1805, by the Executors, for the benefit of his
orphan children.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, AND HONOURABLE,
THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT
BRITAIN,
THESE LECTURES,
COMPOSED BY A MAN, WHO, IN HIS LIFE TIME, WAS
HONOURED BY THEIR SELECTION,
AS THEIR FIRST LECTURER;
AND WHOSE INFANT FAMILY HAVE SINCE EXPERIENCED
THEIR BENEVOLENCE AND PROTECTION,
ARE, WITH PERMISSION, DEDICATED,
BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE SUBSCRIPTION,
IN FAVOUR OF THOSE ORPHANS.
CONTENTS.

THE AUTHOR'S LIFE.

His early amusements. His apprenticeship to Mr. Dawson. His studies
at Edinburgh. In London. His establishment at Bradford. At
Knaresborough. At Harrowgate. His marriage. His lectures at
Liverpool. At Manchester. At Warrington. At Lancaster. At Glasgow.
His tour in the Highlands. The death of his wife. His engagement in
the Royal Institution. His resignatio