Hensing, 1719
Subtitle: an account of the first chemical examination of the brain and the discovery of phosphorus therein : set against the background of Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries : a source book in the history of neurochemistry
By: Donald B. Tower.
Contributors: Hensing, Johann Thomas, 1683-1726.
Publisher: Raven Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Hensing, Johann Thomas, 1683-1726.; Physiologists -- Germany -- Biography.; Brain chemistry -- History.; Phosphorus in the body.; Europe -- History -- 17th century.; Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 325-336.
Contains the original Latin text of Hensing's Cerebri examen chemicum, as well as an annotated English translation by the author.
Includes indexes.