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Index. 



• eruption of Etna ; Christina, 

 daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, 

 takes him under her protection, 65, 

 66 ; dedicates his work on animal 

 motion to her ; robbed by his 

 servant ; takes up his abode 

 among the Society of the Scholae 

 Piee of San Pantaleone ; death, 

 66 ; publication of De motu ani- 

 malium, 67 ; account of the book, 

 67-69; on muscular contraction, 

 69-75; on the circulation, 76-80; 

 on the structure of glands, 80-82 ; 

 on the secretion of urine, 82 ; on 

 the physiology of nerves, 82, 83 ; 

 makes the friendship of Malpighi at 

 Pisa, 88 ; his character contrasted 

 with that of Malpighi, 88, 89; 

 contrasted with Franc. Sylvius, 

 160, 161 ; on gastric digestion, 165, 

 166; on respiration, 177-179; on 

 muscular contraction and nervous 

 action, 281-283 



Bossuet, J. B., endeavours to convert 

 Stensen to the Catholic religion, 

 106 



Boyle, Hon. Robert, pneumatic machine 

 of, 178, 179 



Brunner, J. C. von, birth ; graduates 

 at Strassburg; occupies the Chair 

 of Medicine in Heidelberg ; Court 

 Physician at Dusseldorf; death, 

 162 ; publishes Experimenta nova 

 circa pancreas ; and Dissertatio 

 de glanduhs duodeni ; Brunner's 

 glands, 163 ; experiment on the 

 removal of the spleen and pancreas, 

 163, 164 



Caesalpinus, Andreas, birth ; Professor 

 of Medicine at Pisa; Professor at 

 the Sapienza University ; Physician 

 to Pope Clement VIII., 31 ; passion 

 for theology ; opposes Galen, 32 ; 

 the Qucestiones peripateticce and 

 Qucestiones Medicce of, 32-35 ; 

 credit of Harvey's work claimed 

 for, 53 



Calcar, J. S., illustrates the works of 

 Vesalius, 10 



Cannanus, J. B., observes the valves of 

 the veins, 36 



Capillaries, 98, 100 



Carminati, on the acidity of gastric 

 juice, 222, 223 



Carpi, v. Berengarius 



Castello, Benedetto, Borelli's teacher 

 at Rome, 63 



Castello, P., death of, 90 



Cavendish, experiments on factitious 

 air, 250 



Charles V., the father of Vesalius 

 apothecary to, 6; Vesalius dedicates 

 his ' Structure of the human body * 

 to, 10 ; appoints Vesalius Court 

 Physician, 16 



Chemical Laboratory, the first Uni- 

 versity, 147 



Christina, daughter of Gustavus 

 Adolphus, takes Borelli under her 

 protection at Rome, 65, 66 



Church, The, and Science, 3-5, 17 



Cimento, Accademia del, 64 



Circulation of the blood, 59-61, 76-80, 

 148, 224-227 



Columbus, Matheus Realdus, deputy 

 of Vesalius at Padua, 15 ; appointed 

 Professor of Anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Pisa, 25 ; birth ; studies 

 at Venice and Padua ; acknowledge- 

 ments to Lonigo ; estrangement 

 with Vesalius ; nominated to the 

 Chair of Surgery in Padua, 26 ; nomi- 

 nation unconfirmed ; withdraws to 

 Pisa; teaches anatomy there; called 

 to the Chair of Anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Rome ; death, 27 ; the De 

 Re Anatomica of, 27-31 ; an imitation 

 of Vesalius, 27; his teaching of the 

 pulmonary circulation identical with 

 that of Servetus, 30; credit of 

 Harvey's work claimed for, 53 



Consentinus, T. C, story of, concerning 

 Sarpi and Harvey, 54 



Convention, suppression of the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences by the, 254 



