Index. 



305 



1 Corns anatomicus,' the, at Bologna, 



87 

 Cosimo III., Stensen made Court 



Physician to, 106 ; Laurentio Bellini 



physician to, 111 

 Costaeus, Joh., on the mesaraic veins, 



49 

 Crabbe, Isabella, maiden name of the 



mother of Vesalius, 6 

 Crawford, Adair, publishes a ' Theory 



of Heat,' 248 

 Curio, a learned doctor at Padua, copy 



of the theological work of Servetus 



sent to, 24, 30 



Dephlogisticated air, 240 



Descartes, Rene, birth and death, 57 ; 

 Theory of the Universe; Discours 

 de la methode ; De homine ; Des- 

 cartes the Herbert Spencer of 

 the age ; not convinced by Har- 

 vey's arguments, 58 ; on the 

 circulation, 59-61; N. Stensen on 

 the position of, as a physiologist, 

 62 ; the ' rational soul ' of, 260 ; his 

 exposition of the working of the 

 body as an earthly machine, 261- 

 269 



Digestion, 165, 166, 171, 172, 207, 

 213, 220-223 



Digestions, the six, of van Helmont, 

 136-141 



Drebbel, Cornelius, the maker of an 

 improved microscope, 86 



Dubois, Francois, v. Sylvius, Fran- 

 ciscus 



Du Bois, J., v. Sylvius, Jacobus 



Duct, Stensen's discovery of the 

 parotid, 106, 108, 109 



Ductus aquosi and serosi, 51 



Edwards, W. F., 'the influence of 



physical agents on life,' 253 

 • Elements,' the two, of van Helmont, 



132 ; the three, of Valentine, 125, 



127 

 Embryology, Malpighi the founder of 



the science of, 93 



F. L. 



Ent, Apologia of, 54 

 Erasistratus, 48, 84 

 Etna, Mount, Borelli's investigation 



of an eruption of, 65 

 Eustachian tube and valve, 48 



Fabricius, Hieronymus, birth, 35 ; 

 studies under Falloppius at Padua ; 

 succeeds him; death of, 36; the 

 De venarum ostiolis of, 36, 37 ; the 

 De respiratione et ejus instrumentis 

 of, 38, 39 ; on the formation of the 

 foetus, 40 



Falloppius, Gabr., anatomical obser- 

 vations of, 18, 25, 26; Vesalius's 

 ' Examen ' of, 18, 19 ; succeeds 

 Vesalius at Padua; birth ; Fallop- 

 pian canal and Falloppian tubes, 

 25 



Ferdinand II., Grand Duke of Tuscany, 

 offers the Chair of Theoretical 

 Medicine at Pisa to Malpighi, 88 ; 

 Stensen made Court Physician to, 

 106 



Fermentation, 150-152, 171, 172, 176, 

 216, 221 



Ferrein, Ant., the pyramids of, 117 



Fixed air, 246 



Fontana, invention of the compound 

 microscope attributed to, 86 



Fracastorius, on the motion of the 

 heart, 43 



Fugger family, mines in the Tyrol 

 held by the, 124 



Galen", structure and use of the parts 

 of the body of man, 3 ; main outlines 

 of the physiology of, 12 



Galileo Galilei, leaves Pisa and be- 

 comes Professor at Padua, 57 ; effects 

 of the teaching of, on the problems 

 of physiology, 62 ; death of, 63 ; 

 invention of the compound micro- 

 scope attributed to, 86 



Gas, term used by van Helmont, 132, 

 134, 135, 142 



Glands and tissues, 101-120 



Glands, Borelli on the structure of, 



20 



