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Lectures on the History of Physiology: During the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries
by Sir Michael Foster
Dover Publications, New York, 1970, 310pp, PB
[Europe, England, 16C; also 17-18C]

    Chapters
  1. Vesalius: His Forerunners and Followers
  2. Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lymphatics.
  3. Borelli and the Influence of the New Physics
  4. Malphighi and the Physiology of Glands and Tissues
  5. Van Helmont and the Rise of Chemical Physiology
  6. Sylvius and his Pupils. The Physiology of Digestion in the Seventeenth Century
  7. The English School of the Seventeenth Century. The Physiology of Respiration
  8. The Physiology of Digestion in the Eighteenth Century
  9. The Rise of the Modern Doctrines of Respiration. Black, Priestley, Lavoisier
  10. The Older Doctrines of the Nervous System
Chronological Table (of chief writers spoken of in the lectures):
Name Birthplace Birth Death Work Title Date
Mundinus Bologna 1326 De Anatome 1315
Berengarius, Jacobus (Carpi) Carpi 1470 1530 Commentaria 1521
Guinterius, Johannes Andernach 1487 1574 Institutiones Anatomicae 1536
Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) Einsiedein 1490 1541 Chirurgia Magna 1536
Sylvius, Jacobus Amiens 1478 1555 Commentarium 1539
Vesalius, Andreas Brussels 1514 1564 Fabrica Humani Corporis 1543
Servetus, Michael Villanueva 1511 1553 Christianismi Restitutio 1553
Columbus, Matheus Realdus Cremona 1516 1559 De Re Anatomica 1559
Falloppius, Gabrielus Modena 1523 1563 Observationes Anatomicae 1561
Caesalpinus, Andreas Arezzo 1519 1603 Quaestiones Peripateticae 1571
Fabricius, Hieronymus Aquapendente 1537 1619 De Venarum ostiolis 1574
Sanctorius, Sanctorius Capo d'Istria 1561 1636 Statica Medica 1614
Aselli, Gaspar Cremona 1626 De Lactibus 1627
Harvey, William Folkestone 1578 1667 Exercitatio de Cordis motu 1628
Van Helmont, Jean Bapiste Brussels 1577 1644 Ortus Medicinae 1648
Pecquet, Jean Dieppe 1624 1674 Experimenta Nova Anatomica 1651
Glisson, Francis Rampisham 1597 1677 De Hepate 1654
Wharton, Thomas Winston-on-Tees 1614 1673 Adenographia 1656
Willis, Thomas Great Bedwyn 1621 1691 Cerebri Anatome 1659
Boyle, Robert Lismore 1627 1691 New Experiments physco-mechanical 1660
Malpighi, Marcello Crevalcore 1628 1694 De Pulmonibus 1661
Bellini, Lorenzo Florence 1643 1703 De Structura Renum 1662
Descartes, René Tours 1596 1650 De Homine Liber 1662
Stensen, Nicolaus Copenhagen 1638 1686 Observationes Anatomicae 1662
De Graaf, Regner Schoonhoven 1641 1673 De Natura et usu succi pancreatici 1664
Hooke, Robert Freshwater 1635 1703 Micrographia 1667
Mayow, John London 1643 1679 De Sal Nitro &c 1668
Lower, Richard Cornwall 1631 1690 Tractatus de Corde 1669
Peyer, Jean Conrad Schaffhausen 1653 1712 De Glandulis Intestinorum 1677
Borelli Giovanni Alphonso Naples 1608 1679 De Motu Animalium 1680-1
Brunner, Jean Conrad Diessenhofen 1653 1727 Experimenta nova circa pancreas 1682
Stahl, Georg Ernest Anspach 1660 1734 Theoria Medica 1708
Boerhaave, Hermann Voorhout 1668 1738 Institutiones Medicae 1708
Reaumur, René Rochelle 1683 1757 Sur la Digestions 1752
Black, Joseph Bordeaux 1728 1799 De Humore Acido 1754
Haller, Albrecht Bern 1708 1777 Elementa Physiologiae 1757
Priestley, Joseph Fieldhead 1733 1804 Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air 1775-7
Lavoisier Paris 1743 1794 Sur la nature du principe 1775
Spallanzani, Lazaro Scandiano 1739 1799 Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetabile 1783