P. J. G. Cabanis

"I am glad to hear that M. Cabanis is engaged in writing on the reformation of medecine. it needs the hand of a reformer, and cannot be in better hands than his." — Thomas Jefferson to Constantin Volney, 8 February 1805

"I observe a work lately published in France by Dr. Cabanis on the revolutions and reform of medicine. from my knoelege of the author I am sure it must be a work of the first merit, and if you have it, or should receive it, in French, I would thank you for it." — Thomas Jefferson to Peter & Christian Roche, 3 April 1807… (altro)

Cabanis, in his Physique et Morale de l'homme, has investigated anatomically, and most ingeniously, the particular organs in the human structure which may most probably use that faculty. (TJ to John Adams, 14 March 1820)

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Cabanis had gone far towards proving from the anatomical structure and action of the human machine that certain parts of it were probably the organs of thought, and consequently that matter might exercise that faculty. (TJ to Lafayette, 16 January 16 1825)

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