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Mechanism, experiment, disease : Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy
Author
Title
Mechanism, experiment, disease : Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
ISBN
9780801899034 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801899036 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801899041 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801899044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The new anatomy, the lungs, and respiration
Epidemic fevers and the challenge to Galenism
The anatomy of the brain and of the sensory organs
The glandular structure of the viscera
Fat, blood, and the body's organization
The structure of glands and the problem of secretion
The challenge of insects
Generation and the formation of the chick in the egg
The anatomy of plants
The fortunes of Malpighi's mechanistic anatomy
From the new anatomy to pathology and therapy
Medical consultations.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, 17th Century - Italy.
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