Lectures on the History of Physiology: During

First published in 1901, this volume contains ten lectures originally delivered as the 'Lane Lectures' by Sir Michael Foster at the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco. Examining the history of physiology from about the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century, the lectures consider the work and influence of key figures such as Vesalius, Harvey and Borelli, and chart the progress of scientific thought on matters such as digestion, respiration and the nervous system.

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
Sylvius 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
Index
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Lectures on the History of Physiology: During the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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