Index. 



309 



Rudbeck, Olaus, Nova exercitatio 



anatomic a of, 51 

 Euffo, Visconte, the friend and patron 



of Malpighi, 92 

 Euini, Carlo, on the anatomy of the 



horse, 53 

 Euysch , on the distribution of the renal 



blood vessels, 117 



Sagrino, 96, 97 



Salts, study of, 148 



Sanctorius, S., birth ; studies at Padua ; 

 practises at Venice; Professor of 

 Theoretical Medicine at Padua ; 

 dies in Venice, 145; publication of 

 his Medical Statics, 145 ; account 

 of the book, 146 



Sarpi, Petrus Paulus, studies anatomy 

 under Fabricius, 53, 54 ; the story of 

 his arrival at conclusions similar to 

 those of Harvey; said by Ent to 

 have made use of Harvey's book 

 as his own, 54 



Sbaraglia family disputes with the 

 Malpighi family, 87 



Sensory and motor fibres, 209 



Septalius, Senator, 49 



Servetus, Michael, birth; studies at 

 Paris under Giinther and Sylvius ; 

 physician to Abp of Vienna ; theo- 

 logical works of; he and his works 

 burnt by order of Calvin, 22; credit 

 of Harvey's work claimed for, 53 



Silkworm, 93 



Soul, the, 142-144, 168-171, 220, 259, 

 260, 271, 272, 297-299 



Spallanzani, Lazaro, birth and 

 education ; studies under Laura 

 Bassi; Professor at Reggio and 

 Modena; offered Professorships at 

 Pavia and Padua which he refuses ; 

 death, 212; his works on reproduc- 

 tion, etc., 213; contributions to the 

 physiology of digestion, 213-216; 

 on fermentation, 216; on gastric 

 juice, 218, 219; criticism of, by 

 Hunter, 220 ; on the respiration of 

 animals, 253 



Spirits, 12, 13, 23, 47, 53, 55, 56, 60, 

 136, 139, 141, 197, 260, 274-277, 



284, 285 



Spleen, removal of the, 163, 164 



Stahl, G. E., Court Physician at 

 Weimar; Professor of Medicine at 

 Halle ; Physician to King of Prussia, 

 167; the « sensitive soul' of, 168-171 ; 

 his treatise Be mixti et vivi corporis 

 vera diversitate, 169 ; what his 

 teaching briefly was, 172, 173; on 

 the circulation of the blood, 224-227 



Stapes, the, 31 



Stelluti, Francisco, the first to use the 

 microscope at Rome, 86 



Stensen, Nicolaus, on the position of 

 Descartes as a physiologist, 62; 

 the De musculis observationum speci- 

 men, and Elementorum myologies 

 specimen of, 70, 71; makes the 

 friendship of Malpighi, 91 ; dis- 

 covery of the parotid duct; the 

 Observationes Anatomicce of; at- 

 tracts attention of Bossuet; dis- 

 course on the anatomy of the brain ; 

 made Court Physician to Ferdinand 

 II.; and Cosimo III., 106; his 

 work called De solido intra soli- 

 dum; forsakes his old studies and 

 devotes himself to religion, 107; 

 receives the titulary honour of 

 Bishop of Titiopolis; teaches ana- 

 tomy at Copenhagen, 108 ; describes 

 his discovery of the parotid duct, 

 108 T 110; on muscle, 284; on the 

 value of science in practical matters, 

 285 



Stevens, of Edinburgh, experiments 

 on digestion, 219, 220 



Stone in the bladder, 233 



Swammerdam, Joh., new ideas started 

 by, with the aid of the microscope, 

 86 ; the Biblia Natures of, 99, 100 



Sylvius, Franciscus, studies at Sedan 

 and Basel; Professor of Medicine 

 at Leyden ; has a ■ Laboratorium ' 

 built for him there, 147 ; devotes 

 himself to the study of salts ; writes 



