![]() It is also simultaneously tautologous (the foetus is not just ‘expelled’, but ‘expelled outside’) and incomplete: there is no mention of what this foetus is expelled out of-we assume a / the body. It uses impersonal almost abstract substantives (‘l’accouchement’’ ‘le foetus’ ‘une fonction’ ‘un terme’) that completely detach the process from any specific living (and presumably gendered) body. 1ĭelivery is a natural function by which the foetus having reached a certain term is expelled outside.Ģ There is nothing wrong with this definition from a mid-to-late eighteenth-century point of view it is clear and concise, while its emphasis on delivery as a natural function shows that Bordenave is within the mainstream of Haller-influenced physiological thinking in seeing physiology as not just anatomy but as the ensemble of (partly mechanical) processes within a living body. L’Accouchement est une fonction naturelle, par laquelle le foetus parvenu a un certain terme est expulsé au-dehors. 1 Toussaint Bordenave, Essai sur la physiologie (Paris: P.
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