Lectures on the history of physiology during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries /

by Sir M. Foster...
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Cambridge : University press, 1901.
Series:Cambridge natural science manuals. Biological series
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Notes:"Delivered as the ʻLane lectures ̕at the Cooper medical college in San Francisco" 1900.

Physical description: 310 p. : ill ; 23 cm. (8vo).

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Table of Contents:
Vesalius
Harvey
Borelli and the new physics
Malpigh and the physiology of glands, &c.
Van Helmont and the use of chemical physiology
Sylvius and his pupils
English school of the seventeenth century
Physiology of digestion
Modern doctrines of respiration : Black, Priestley, Lavoisier
Older doctrines of the nervous system chronological table
Index.