Mechanism, experiment, disease
Subtitle: Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy
By: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780801899034; 9780801899041
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new anatomy, the lungs, and respiration; title: Epidemic fevers and the challenge to Galenism; title: The anatomy of the brain and of the sensory organs; title: The glandular structure of the viscera; title: Fat, blood, and the body's organization; title: The structure of glands and the problem of secretion; title: The challenge of insects; title: Generation and the formation of the chick in the egg; title: The anatomy of plants; title: The fortunes of Malpighi's mechanistic anatomy; title: From the new anatomy to pathology and therapy; title: Medical consultations.