CONTENTS 



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CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX TO THE SCIENTIFIC CAREER OF 

 HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ 



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THE PARENTAGE OF HERMANN HELMHOLTZ i 



His BOYHOOD, 1821-1838 6 



STUDENT AT THE ROYAL FRIEDRICH-WILHELM INSTITUTE FOR 



MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN BERLIN, 1838-1842 . . 13 



SURGEON AT THE CHARIT, 1842-1843 24 



1842. De Fabrica Systematis Nervosi Evertebratorum. 

 Inaugural Dissertation ....... 24 



1843. 'On the Nature of Fermentation and Putrefaction.' 

 Mullens Archiv 27 



ARMY-SURGEON AT POTSDAM, 1843-1848 29 



1845. ' O R Metabolism during Muscular Activity.* Mutter's 

 ArchiVj 1845 32 



1846. 'Physiological Heat/ Encyklop. Worterbuch d. med. 

 Wissenschaften 32 



1847. 'Report on Work done on the Theory of Animal 

 Heat in 1845.' Fortschritte d. Physik 34 



'On the Conservation of Energy.' (Berlin Physical 

 Society) published by G. Reimer, Berlin. (Trans.) 'On 

 the Conservation of Force: a Physical Memoir/ in Taylor, 

 Scientific Memoirs (Nat. Phil.\ 1853 ..... 39 



'Development of Heat in Muscular Activity.' Mutter's 

 Archiv, 1848 50 



1848. Probationary lecture to the Academy of Arts, Berlin, on 



' Some Aspects of the Teaching of Anatomy to Art-Students.' 51 

 LECTURER TO THE ACADEMY OF ARTS, AND ASSISTANT AT THE 



ANATOMICAL MUSEUM IN BERLIN, 1848-1849 59 



