English surgeon and philosophical writer closely associated with Coleridgean intellectual circles. In Vital Dynamics he explored life, mind, and organism in terms that mediate between emerging biology and metaphysical speculation.
Read by Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
1 title in the Cabinet
Full title: Vital dynamics
The Dial's edition: 1838
A programmatic address on 'life' and organization that tries to align medical science with a Coleridgean philosophy of nature, pushing against reduction to mechanism and insisting on dynamic principles.
