Lectures on the history of physiology during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / by Sir M. Foster.

Date:
1901
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    CONTENTS. Lecture - Pages L Vesalius : his Forerunners and Followers . . 1—24 II. Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lymphatics 25—54 III. BORELLI AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE NeW PhYSICS . 55—83 IV. MaLPIGHI AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF GlANDS AND Tissues 84—120 V. Van Helmont and the Rise of Chemical Physi- ology 121—144 VI. Sylvius and his Pupils. The Physiology of Digestion in the Seventeenth Century . . 145—173 VII. The English School of the Seventeenth Century. The Physiology of Respiration . . . 174—199 VIII. The Physiology of Digestion in the Eighteenth Century 200—223 IX. The Rise of the Modern Doctrines of Respi- ration. Black, Priestley, Lavoisier . . 224—254 X. The Older Doctrines of the Nervous System . 255—300 Chronological Table 301—302 Index 303—310