CONTENTS. xxi 



CHAPTER XXII. 



FAGB 



SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY . 182 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



Great spread of Science in the Eighteenth Century Advance of 

 the Sciences relating to Living Beings Foundation of Leyden 

 University in 1 5 74 Boerhaave, Professor of Medicine at Ley- 

 den, 1701 Foundation of Chemistry of organic compounds 

 by Boerhaave Influence of Boerhaave upon the study of Medi- 

 cine Belief of the Alchemists in ' Vital Fluids ' Boerhaave's 

 Experiments on the Juices of Plants Dr. Hales's Experiments 

 on Plants Boerhaave's Analyses of Milk, Blood, etc. Great 

 popularity of his Chemical Lectures . . . . .189 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



Childhood of Haller Foundation of the University of Gottingen 

 in 1736 Haller made Professor of Anatomy Haller's Ana- 

 tomical Plates He discovers the power of Contraction of the 

 Muscles Rise of Comparative Anatomy John Hunter's in- 

 dustry in Dissecting and Comparing the Structures of different 

 Animals His Museum and the arrangement of his Collection 

 Bonnet's Experiments on Plants Experiments upon Ani- 

 mals by Bonnet and Spallanzani Regrowth of different parts 

 when cut off Bonnet's theory of Gradual Development of 

 Plants and Animals Anatomical Works of Haller He dis- 

 covers the power of the Muscles to contract . . . . 195 



