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Index. 



physician to Innocent XII., 119; 

 death, 120 ; autobiography ; Borelli's 

 criticism of his views on respira- 

 tion, 177 ; on the histology of the 

 nervous system, 269 



Malpighian layer, 100 



Maria Theresa, Empress, offers the 

 Chair of Natural History at Pavia 

 to Lazaro Spallanzani, 212 



Massari, Bartolommeo, forms a club 

 called the Gorus anatomicus at 

 Bologna, 87; sudden death of, 

 88 



Mayow, John, at Oxford; publications 

 of; admitted Fellow of the Boyal 

 Society; death, 185; on respiration, 

 185, 186, 192; tract on sal-nitrum, 

 186; on combustion, 189, 190; iden- 

 tification of burning and breathing, 

 190-198; on muscular contraction, 

 286 



Medici, Cosimo de\ 16; appoints 

 Columbus Professor of Anatomy at 

 Pisa, 25 



Medulla cerebri, 294 



Mesaraic veins, 49 



Microscope, 70, 84, 86, 94, 96, 97 



Motor fibres, 299 



Mundinus, K., teaches at Bologna; 

 the Anatomia of, 4 



Muscular contraction, 69-75 



Nerves, physiology of, on Borelli's 



views, 82, 8.3 

 Nervous system, Vesalius on the, 



255-257 ; Malpighi on the histology 



of, 269 

 Nitrogen, discovery of, 236 



Oporinus, J., printer of the Fabrica 

 humani corporis of Vesalius, 3 



Oxygen, prepared by Priestley, 240; 

 discovered by Lavoisier, 244, 245 



Pancreas, 50, 209; removal of the, 



163, 164 

 Pancreas, discovery of the duct of the, 



104 



Pancreatic juice, 154-157 



Paracelsus, why so called, 123, 124; 

 enters the University of Basel ; be- 

 comes the pupil of Bishop Trithemius 

 at Wurzburg; spends some time in 

 the mines in the Tyrol, 124; learns 

 the doctrines of Valentine from 

 Bishop Trithemius, 125; settles at 

 Basel; driven hence, 126; dies at 

 Salzburg; use of laudanum said 

 to be due to him, 127; his doc- 

 trines taken up by van Helmont, 

 128 



Parotid duct, Stensen's discovery of 

 the, 106, 108, 109 



Pecquet, Jean, Experimental nova ana- 

 tomica of, 50 



Peyer, Jean Conrad, the Exercitatio 

 anatomica medica de glandulis intes- 

 tinorum of, 162 



Philip II., Vesalius Court Physician 

 to, 17 



Phlogiston, 167, 189, 224, 226, 233, 

 239, 241 



Plants, anatomy of, Malpighi's work 

 on the, 92 



Priestley, Joseph, oxygen prepared by, 

 240 ; on respiration, 237-243 



Pulmonary artery, v. Artery-like vein 



Putrefaction, 216 



Keaumur, Ben6 Antoine Ferchault de, 

 birth, etc. ; his thermometer ; his 

 work on insects; on the diges- 

 tion of birds, 210 ; accused of 

 'anatomical ignorance' by Hunter, 

 220 



Kespiration, 175, 180, 181, 228-230, 

 237-248 



Bhazes, the ninth book of, translated 

 by Vesalius, 8 



Bobinson, Nicolas, on the spleen, 

 296 



Boyal Society of London, founding of 

 the, 174; Malpighi invited by the 

 Society to a philosophic conference ; 

 the Society publishes his works, 

 92 



