Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals)

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310 pp. 8vo. A three-century history of physiology, with the following chapters: Vesalius: His Forerunners and Followers; Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lymphatics; Borelli and the Influence of the New Physics; Malpighi and the Physiology of Glands and Tissues; Van Helmont and the Rise of Chemical Physiology; Silvius and His Pupils. The Physiology of Digestion in the Seventeenth Century; The English School of the Seventeenth Century. The Physiology of Respiration; The Physiology of Digestion in the Eighteenth Century; The Rise of the Modern Doctrines of Respiration. Black, Priestley, Lavoisier; The Older Doctrines of the Nervous System. Chronological table and index follow text. Garrison-Morton 1575. Show more