Mechanism, experiment, disease [electronic resource] : Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 439 p. :) illContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801899805
- 080189980X
- Malpighi, Marcello, 1628-1694
- Malpighi, Marcello, 1628-1694
- Physiology, Comparative -- history -- Italy
- History, 17th Century -- Italy
- Embryology -- history -- Italy
- Anatomy, Comparative -- history -- Italy
- Microscopy -- History -- 17th century
- Anatomy -- History -- 17th century
- Anatomists -- Italy -- Biography
- 611.0092/2 22
- QM16.M33 B47 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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