10 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY OF THE ORGANS OF VOLUNTARY 



MOTION. 



PACK 



Sect. 1. Knowledge of Galen and his Predecessors 438 



Sect. 2. Recognition of Final Causes in Physiology. Galen 442 



CHAPTER II. DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 



Sect. 1. Prelude to the Discovery 444 



Sect. 2. The Discovery of the Circulation made by Harvey 447 



Sect. 3. Reception of the Discovery 448 



Sect. 4. Bearing of the Discovery on the Progress of Physiology 449 



CHAPTER III. DISCOVERY OF THE MOTION OF THE CHYLE, 

 AND CONSEQUENT SPECULATIONS. 



Sect. 1. The Discovery of the Motion of the Chyle 452 



Sect. 2. The Consequent Speculations. Hypotheses of Digestion 453 



CHAPTER IV. EXAMINATION OF THE PROCESS OF REPRO- 

 DUCTION IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS, AND CONSEQUENT 

 SPECULATIONS. 



Sect. 1. The Examination of the Process of Reproduction in Animals 455 



Sect. 2. " in Vegetables .. 457 

 Sect. 3. The Consequent Speculations. Hypotheses of Generation 459 



CHAPTER V. EXAMINATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND 

 CONSEQUENT SPECULATIONS. 



Sect. 1. The Examination of the Nervous System 461 



Sect. 2. The Consequent Speculations. Hypotheses respecting Life, Sen- 

 sation, and Volition 464 



CHAPTER VI. INTRODUCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DEVEL- 

 OPED AND METAMORPHOSED SYMMETRY. 



Sect. 1. Vegetable Morphology. Gothe. De Candolle 468 



Sect. 2. Application of Vegetable Morphology 474 





 CHAPTER VII. PROGRESS OF ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY. 



Sect. 1. Rise of Comparative Anatomy 475 



Sect. 2. Distinction of the General Types of the Forms of Animals. 



Cuvier 478 



Sect. 3. Attempts to establish the Identity of the Types of Animal Forms. 480 



