Mechanism, experiment, disease : Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.

  • Bertoloni Meli, Domenico.
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Physical description

xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

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.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Malpighi)
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ISBN

  • 9780801899034
  • 0801899036
  • 9780801899041
  • 0801899044