“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as ‘the sum of the functions by which death is resisted”
Richard Holmes
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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