CONTENTS 



Frontispiece William Harvey, Portrait 



CHAPTER I. 



The Circulation of the Blood — William Harvey 1 



The Renaissance — Anatomy and Physiology, Galen (1) — Vesalius (2) — 

 Harvey, birth and education (3) — Fabricius and Harvey, friends; Ana- 

 tomical Teaching previous to 1745 (4) — Harvey's personal characteristics 

 (5) — Harvey as Lecturer; His Lecture Precepts (7) — Harvey and Bacon; 

 Publication of the Work on the Circulation (8) — The Treatise on the Cir- 

 culation (10) — Capillary Circulation (12) — Asellius and the Lymphatic 

 Circulation (13) — Asellius opposed by Harvey (14) — The Lacteals, dem- 

 onstrated by Johannes Pecquet (15). 



. CHAPTER II. 



Physiology of Digestion in the Seventeenth and 



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^ Eighteenth Centuries 16 



Stahl and Boerhaave attacked the Chemical Problems of Physiology (16) 

 — Peyer and Brunner; Mechanical and Chemical Views of Digestion (17) 

 — Borelli and Sylvius (18) — ^Haller's Elementa Physiologia appeared 

 1757 (19) — Reaumur and His Methods; Experiments with Gastric Juice; 

 Spallanzani (21) — Work of Reaumur and Spallanzani confirmed by Stevens 

 of Edinburgh (22). ^ 



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CHAPTER III. 



Physiology of Digestion — William Beaumont 23 



The Investigations of Beaumont on the gastric juice of St. Martin freely 

 quoted in Medical Literature; Beaumont, His Early Life (23) — The Rou- 

 tine of a Medical Apprentice at the beginning of last century (24) — As- 

 sistant Army Surgeon (25) — Beaumont's Diary (25) — St. Martin's Acci- 

 dent (26) — Beaumont conceives the idea of experimenting on St. Martin 

 (27) — Beaumont Honored by the Michigan Medical Society (28) — Seeks 

 Assistance of two Leading Scientists (29) — St. Martin Attains Fame 

 Through His Stomach (30) — Beaumont resigns from the Army (31) — 

 His Death (31)— His -Work (32). 



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