PROGRESS IN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 



largely to the influence of the great Eussian, Karl Ernst 

 von Baer, who about ten years earlier had published the 

 first part of his celebrated work on embryology, and 



JOHANNES MULI.ER 



whose ideas were rapidly gaining ground, thanks large- 

 ly to the advocacy of a few men, notably Johannes Miil- 

 ler in German} 7 , and William B. Carpenter in England, 

 and to the fact that the improved microscope had made 

 minute anatomy popular. Schwann's researches made 

 it plain that the best field for the study of the animal 

 cell is here, and a host of explorers entered the field. 

 The result of their observations was, in the main, to con- 

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