A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



Cailletet, v. 42; Olzewski's 

 experiments in, v. 61. 



PAGET, JAMES, and the Trichina 



spiralis, iv. 207. 

 Painless dentistry, iv. 213. 

 Paleontology, new science of, iii. 



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Pancreas, the, shares in digestion, 

 iv. 129; all important in the 

 digestion of starchy and fatty 

 foods, iv. 130. 



Pappenheim discovered that the 

 pancreas shares in digestion, 

 iv. 129. 



Paracelsus, life, ii. 156; ''four 

 pillars" of his medical teach- 

 ings, ii. 159; doctrine of 

 "signatures," ii. 160; use of 

 magnets, ii. 161; condemna- 

 tion of surgery, ii. 162; his 

 influence, ii. 162. 



Parasitic diseases, iv. 204. 



Pare, Ambroise, "the father of 

 French surgery," ii. 181. 



Parisian system of sewage dis- 

 posal, the, v. 200. 



Parmenides, a distinguished or- 

 nament of the Eleatic School, 

 i. 114; his theories concerning 

 the earth, i. 130; his cos- 

 mogonic speculations, i. 131. 



Pascal, barometrical experi- 

 ment, ii. 122. 



Pasteur Institute, the, v. 178- 

 186; the tomb of Pasteur 

 within the walls, v. 181; aims 

 and objects of, v. 182; anti- 

 rabic treatment given at, v. 

 183; a school of bacteriology, 

 v. 184; the regular staff of, v. 

 185; sheep and cattle treated 

 at, ibid. 



Pasteur, Louis, architectural de- 

 sign of a molecule illustrated 

 by, iv. 63; refutation of the 

 doctrine of spontaneous gen- 

 eration, iv. 1 80; corroborated 

 by Tyndall, ibid; and the 

 germ theory of disease, iv. 217; 

 studies in fermentation, iv. 

 218; cause of the decay of 



organic tissues, iv. 220; ex- 

 periments with grape sugar, 

 iv. 221; settles question of 

 bacilli as cause of anthrax, 

 iv. 228; experiments with 

 chicken cholera, iv. 232; and 

 the microbe of anthrax, iv. 

 233; demonstrates the pro- 

 tection afforded animals by 

 inoculation, iv. 238, 239; his 

 inoculations to prevent hydro- 

 phobia, iv. 240; his tomb, v. 

 181. 



Paul of ^Egina, Byzantine sur- 

 geon, ii. 32. 



Payen and cell walls of vege- 

 tables, iv. 124. 



Pepsin, an active principle in 

 gastric juice, iv. 129; de- 

 tected by Spratt and Boyd, 

 ibid. 



Percussion, Piorry's method of 

 mediate, iv. 203. 



Perraudin, first accounted for 

 the presence of "erratics" 

 on the mountain-tops, iii. 145; 

 his idea was laughed at by all 

 except Charpentier, iii. 146. 



Perrin, J., his theories of radio- 

 activity, v. 106. 



Peter of Abano, physician, ii. 36. 



Petrie, Professor, an Egyptolo- 

 gist, i. 28. 



Phenomena of nature, a deer 

 knows that the odor of a 

 wolf means danger, i. 4; its 

 instincts are no less logical, no 

 less scientific than a man's, 

 ibid. 



Philosopher's stone, ii. 124, 131. 



Phlogiston theory, the, in 

 chemistry, iv. 3-10; influence 

 of Boyle's teaching of, iv. 5; 

 Stahl's theory of, iv. 6; pecu- 

 liarities of, iv. 7 ; many com- 

 plications and final overthrow 

 of, iv. 9. 



Photography, discovery of, ren- 

 dered the vitality of the 

 spectroscope complete, iv. 70. 



Phrenology, studies in, iv. 247, 

 248. 



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