Excerpt from The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, Vol. 2: 1st of July to 30th of September, 1827 The fashionable modification of this doctrine which lately made so much noise on both sides of the channel - namely, that the sum total of the organic functions was the soul, (though couched under the term life) is now on its wane, even in France; but whether from the fear of the priests, the eagle eyes of the press censors, or the prevalence of a more enlightened philosophy, we are unable to determine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.