CONTENTS, 



Lecture Pages ' 



I. Vesalius : his Forerunners and Followers . . 1 — 24 



II. Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The 



Lacteals and Lymphatics ..... 25 — 54 



iii. borelli and the influence of the new physics . 55 — 83 



iv. malpighi and the physiology of glands and 



Tissues 84 — 120 



V. Van Helmont and the Rise of Chemical Physi- 



ology 121—144 



VI. Sylvius and his Pupils. The Physiology of 



Digestion in the Seventeenth Century . . 145 — 173 



VII. The English School of the Seventeenth Century. 



The Physiology of Respiration . . . 174 — 199 



VIII. The Physiology of Digestion in the Eighteenth 



Century 200—223 



IX. The Rise of the Modern Doctrines of Respi- 



ration. Black, Priestley, Lavoisier . . 224—254 



X. The Older Doctrines of the Nervous System . 255 — 300 



Chronological Table 301 — 302 



Index 303—310 



