Index. 



307 



succeeds Vesalius as physician to 



Philip II., 31 

 Innocent XII. appoints Malpighi his 



physician, 119 

 Irritability, 289, 292 



Janssen, Hans and Zacharias, the 

 supposed inventors of the micro- 

 scope, 86 



Jolive, takes degree at Cambridge ; on 

 lymphatics, 51 



Kidneys, functions of the, 102 



Lacteals, 48-51, 131, 138, 157 

 Lagrange, on respiration, 252 

 Laplace, Memoir on Heat, 248 

 Laudanum, use of, said to be due to 



Paracelsus, 127 

 Lavoisier, Ant. Laurent, birth and 

 education ; admitted to the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences ; publication 

 of his work 'On the nature of 

 the principle which combines with 

 metals during their calcination,' 

 244 ; the discoverer of oxygen ; on 

 ' General considerations concerning 

 the nature of acids,' 245 ; on animal 

 respiration, 245-248 ; publishes in 

 conjunction with Laplace, Memoir 

 on Heat, 248; publishes in con- 

 junction with Sequin • The transpi- 

 ration of animals,' 251; his theory 

 of a hydrocarbonous secretion over- 

 thrown by Spallanzani, 253 ; arrested 

 and executed by the Convention, 

 254 

 Leeuenhoek, Anton van, new ideas 

 started by, with the aid of the 

 microscope, 86; observes the capil- 

 laries, 98; description of red blood 

 corpuscles by, 100 

 Liver, functions of the, 102 

 Lower, Eichard, experiments on trans- 

 fusion, 181, 182; practises in London ; 

 publishes the Tractatus de corde, 

 182; the instructor of Thomas 

 Willis, 270 



Loyola, Ignatius, contemporary with 



Vesalius, 8 

 Lung, discovery of the structure of, 



by Malpighi, 90, 95 

 Luzzi, E. de', v. Mundinus, R. 

 Lymphatics, 51, 52, 106, 157 



Magnus, Gustav, on respiration, 253, 



254 

 Malpighi, Marcello, new ideas started 

 by, with the aid of the microscope; 

 birth; student at Bologna, 86; 

 disputes with the Sbaraglia family ; 

 joins the Corns anatomicus at Bo- 

 logna; becomes Doctor in Medicine 

 and Philosophy; in disfavour with 

 the Obscurantists ; marries the sister 

 of Massari, 87; made Professor of 

 Medicine; accepts the Chair of 

 Theoretical Medicine at Pisa; makes 

 the friendship of Borelli there ; his 

 character contrasted with that of 

 Borelli, 88, 89; his manuscript of 

 a Dialogue between a Galenist and a 

 surgeon accidentally burnt; resigns 

 his Chair at Pisa and returns to 

 Bologna as Professor of Medicine; 

 discovers the structure of the lung ; 

 accepts the Chair of Medicine at 

 Messina, 90; makes friends with 

 Stensen; accepts post again at Bo- 

 logna, 91 ; invited to a philosophic 

 correspondence with the Eoyal 

 Society of London ; his works pub- 

 lished by the Society; his book on 

 the anatomy of plants, 92; the 

 founder of the science of embryo- 

 logy; devotes himself to the study 

 of the silkworm, 93; the first histo- 

 logist, 94 ; his work ' On the Lungs,' 

 95-98; further discovery touching 

 the blood, 99; work of, on the 

 tongue and external organ of sense, 

 100, 101; on the anatomy of the 

 brain, 101; glands, 101-104; on the 

 liver, 112-116; the kidney, 116, 

 117; the spleen, 117, 118; treatises 

 written at Bologna, 118; becomes 



