A History of EmbryologyCambridge University Press, 29 янв. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 336 First published in 1959 as the second edition of a 1934 original, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth through Graeco-Roman antiquity to the close of the eighteenth century. The text is illustrated with plates and diagrams showing the development of scientific understanding over time, first through artistic representations of gestation and later through scientific drawings and sketches. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine. |
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List of Plates | 9 |
Preliminary Note | 11 |
EMBRYOLOGY IN ANTIQUITY 1 Ideas of Primitive Peoples | 18 |
Artificial Incubation | 22 |
Indian Antiquity | 25 |
Hellenic Antiquity the PreSocratics | 27 |
Hippocratic Embryology and the Doctrine of the Two Seeds | 31 |
Aristotles great Systematisation | 37 |
The Movement to Rationalise Obstetrics | 109 |
The Opening Years | 115 |
Developmental Determinism and Transplantation Digby Highmore and Tagliacozzi | 121 |
Thomas Browne and the Beginnings of Chemical Embryology | 131 |
William Harvey and the Identification of the Blastoderm | 133 |
The Riddle of Fertilisation | 145 |
Harveys Achievements and Influence | 149 |
Atomist Theories of Embryonic Development Gassendi and Descartes | 153 |
The Doctrine of the Menstrual Blood | 42 |
Denials of Maternity and Paternity | 43 |
Formation Recapitulation and Fermentation | 46 |
The Aristotelian Balancesheet | 54 |
Aristotles Theory of Causation | 56 |
The Hellenistic Age | 60 |
Galen and the Vital Faculties | 69 |
EMBRYOLOGY FROM GALEN TO THE RENAISSANCE 1 Patristic Speculation | 75 |
Contributions of Jewish Thinkers | 77 |
Embryology among the Arabs | 82 |
Alchemy and Embryology | 83 |
The Visions of St Hildegard | 84 |
Albertus Magnus the Reawakening of Scientific Embryology | 86 |
Aristotles Masterpiece | 91 |
Scholastic Ideas on Generation | 93 |
The Insights of Leonardo da Vinci | 96 |
The MacroIconographers of the Sixteenth Century | 99 |
Fixatives and Uterine Milk Robert Boyle and Walter Needham | 158 |
The Discovery of the Follicles of the Mammalian Ovary | 162 |
The Microiconographers and Preformationism Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam | 163 |
Foetal Respiration and Composition John Mayow and Robert Boyle | 170 |
Theories of Foetal Nutrition | 179 |
Growth and Differentiation Stahl and MaîtreJan | 183 |
Chemical and Quantitative Approaches to the Origin of Organisation Boerhaave Hamberger and Mazin | 186 |
Albrecht von Haller and the Rise of Techniques | 193 |
Embryos and Theologians | 204 |
Ovism and Animalculism | 205 |
Spontaneous Generation | 211 |
Preformation and Epigenesis | 213 |
The Closing Years | 223 |
Conclusion | 230 |
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