A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



* (p. 202). Laennec, Traite d' Auscultation Mediate. Paris, 

 1819. This was Laennec's chief work, and was soon trans- 

 lated into several different languages. Before publishing this 

 he had written also, Propositions sur la doctrine medicate 

 d'Hippocrate, Paris, 1804, and Memoires sur les vers vesiculaires , 

 in the same year. 



3 (p. 212). Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, chiefly 

 concerning Nitrous Oxide or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air and 

 its Respiration, by Humphry Davy. London, 1800, pp. 479- 

 556. 



4 (p. 212). Ibid. 



8 (p. 214). For accounts of the discovery of anaesthesia, see 

 Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General 

 Hospital, Boston, 1888. Also, The Etlier Controversy: Vindi- 

 cation of the Hospital Reports of 1848, by N. I. Bowditch, 

 Boston, 1848. An excellent account is given in Littell's Liv- 

 ing Age, for March, 1848, written by R. H. Dana, Jr. There 

 are also two Congressional Reports on the question of 

 the discovery of etherization, one for 1848, the other for 

 1852. 



' (p. 217). Simpson made public this discovery of the anaes- 

 thetic properties of chloroform in a paper read before the 

 Medico - Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, in March, 1847, 

 about three months after he had first seen a surgical operation 

 performed upon a patient to whom ether had been admin- 

 istered. 



7 (p. 227). Louis Pasteur, Studies on Fermentation. London, 

 1870. 



8 (p. 238). Louis Pasteur, in Contptes Rendus des Sciences 

 de I Academic des Sciences, vol. XCIL, 1881, pp. 429-435. 



CHAPTER IX 



THE NEW SCIENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 



(p. 249). Bell's communications were made to the Royal 

 Society, but his studies and his discoveries in the field of anat- 

 omy of the nervous system were collected and published, in 

 1824, as Aw Exposition of the Natural System of Nerves of the 



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