Xotes to Introduclonj Lecture, 



^lyote 14. 



Blaziiis published in 1681, a volume in quarto, on the ana- 

 tomy of various animals, with plates, entitled ^Inatomia Jini- 

 malium jiguris variis illustrata. He had previously publish- 

 ed a smaller one in 1673, entitled tRnatome Hominis, Bruto- 

 rumque variorum, and other works. 



JTote 15. 



John Swammerdam. This celebrated anatomist and natu- 

 ral historian was born at Amsterdam in 1637. His father 

 Avas an apothecary in that city, and possessed a small cabi- 

 net of natural curiosities, by the frequent survey of which 

 his son acquired a taste for those pursuits, by which he af- 

 terwards rendered Iiimself so conspicuous. He studied at 

 Leyden, where he took the degree of doctor in medicine, in 

 1667, but never engaged in the practice of physic, devoting 

 himself Avholly to anatomical and physiological inquiries, 

 and to collecting and examining insects. Of this class of 

 animated beings he investigated the generation, structure, 

 and metamorphoses, with astonishing patience and assiduity, 

 and described and elucidated the same in his admirable work 

 entitled, "A general history of insects," first published in the 

 Dutch language, in 1669, and afterwards translated into Eng- 

 lish. His Historia Ephemerse appeared in 1675. These and 

 other observations, relative to the natural history of insects 

 were collected into a folio volume, (Dutch and Latin,) print- 

 ed at Leyden in 1737, under the title of Bihlia JWiturce, she 

 historia insectorum* This edition was superintended by Bo- 

 erhave, who wrote the biographical memoirs which are pre- 

 fixed to it ,• but the Latin translation was by Gaubius, pro- 

 fessor of pathology at Leyden. Besides a tract on respira- 

 tion, Swammerdam Avrote another anatomical work, entitled, 

 Miraculmn JS^alurit sen uteri mnlieris fahrica, published iu 

 1672. He appears to have been the first who practiced the 

 art of injecting the blood vessels with wax ; for his country- 

 man and contemporary Ruysch learned this method of him. 



His collection of insects and other objects belonging to 



